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Sherry Palmer Cedars in the Marsh oil on canvas 1986

Sherry Palmer Cedars in the Marsh oil on canvas 1986. "Sherry Palmer" is a well accomplished artist She has exhibited at the Ogunquit Museum of Art in Ogunquit Maine. Her show ran from August 17th to September 30, 1998. This lovely landscape was painted by the artist in 1988 and is titled "Cedars in The Marsh" Measures 15 inches by 5 and one half inches."In 1989, New Hampshire artist Sherry Palmer fulfilled a long-held wish to visit Scotland. To her surprise, she found that the home of her ancestors (the MacLeods) was on Scotland's Isle of Skye. During that trip to Skye, Palmer fell in love with the people and their customs - and with the beautiful but stark environment, bathed in a quality of light that proved irresistible to the landscape painter. As she said: "I found a landscape I could paint for a lifetime." Palmer returned to Skye every year until 1995, when she made the dramatic decision to take her life savings and move there on an artist's visa. During that period Palmer painted full-time, returning to New Hampshire in May, 1997. "The Isle of Skye: Paintings by Sherry Palmer" will contain many of the oil and watercolor paintings completed during her Scottish residency. A painter who prefers to work outdoors, Palmer describes her work: "I love being, on the marsh, in the fields, in the hills, and responding to what I see in front of me." Palmer's paintings are characterized by fluid brushstrokes that convey rich colors and an ethereal, all-encompassing light. Her masterly use of form and color has a directness and simplicity that evokes the sense of immediacy found in the best "plein-air" painters" Taken from http://www.tfaoi.com/newsmu/nmus104c.htm

Thank you for your quick reply. I am really shocked at the price. I knew many people here wanted it, but probably figured I didn't know what I had and they wanted to buy it for nothing. I am glad I held on to it.
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