![]() I currently serve on CPWP’s Board of Advisors, and under their auspices, I will occasionally continue my journeys around New England, visiting homes/inns/taverns in order to document the historic walls therein. Over the years, it has been a great learning experience working with The Center for Painted Wall Preservation, a 501c3 organization dedicated to the research and preservation of eighteenth and early nineteenth century American paint-decorated plaster walls. Old sap buckets, vintage bead board, galvanized pails, old cupboard doors, rustic tables, and breadboards from days gone by, all make exquisite “canvases!” If it was old and crusty, I was painting folk art on it, and customers loved it! To this day, I just love painting folk art on vintage items from New England's past. I was a painting machine during that time, with multiple pieces always going at once! In addition to selling my traditional Rufus Porter Style paintings on canvas, one of my specialties at White Home Collections was selling folk art-painted salvage pieces. I loved meeting my clients, and becoming friends with many of them. It was such a privilege displaying and selling my folk art creations at this beautiful landmark shop. ![]() I had my “shop” at White Home for 1.5 years, right up until they sadly closed their doors in December of 2018. It was super fun, and it gave me so much great experience as I worked on my fledgling folk art business. A couple of years after retiring, I became a dealer at White Home Collections in Wilton, NH. It was only then that I had the opportunity to really focus on my folk art. In 2015, I took an early retirement package from Hewlett Packard (HP). My research has been published in The Decorator, a publication of the Historical Society of Early American Decoration. My research has taken me to every corner of New England in order to view and document some of the few remaining original works of the itinerant folk art painters like Rufus Porter, Jonathan D. I have been researching, studying, and writing about 19th century (1800 – 1860) folk art decorated plaster walls for over 20 years.
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