Preservation - real or implied

Preservation is a positive endeavor but I always look back, behind the history curtain. Preservation Through Art has been a unique opportunity to do that and I'm happy to have eight paintings accepted in the upcoming show. Forty artists have interpreted sites around the Charleston area that were originally depicted within The Land We Live In - Charleston and Its Suburbs, published 1873. The original text is happy and upbeat with gorgeous images worthy of our efforts to capture how they look now in 2024. See the article in the July issue of Carolina Arts, https://www.carolinaarts.com/

But true to verbiage of the time period, the writer found Charleston to be a graciously hospitable place and home to statesmen and men of letters. The author hoped Charleston could "attain a prosperity under the new dispensation as brilliant as that they enjoyed under the old...(and) renew the social triumphs of the brilliant past." Subscribers North and South apparently loved these books that were published during reconstruction.

The show is a fundraiser for preservation efforts that correspond with each location and many seek to tell the complete story. And keeping in mind who built the wealth and prosperity, my paintings are presented to honor their toil in addition to admiring the beauty of the place I call home. All the work is available to purchase online only and is grouped by location. You’ll find my paintings at the following links - A Roadside Scene Near Charleston, A Live Oak on the Ashley, Magnolia Cemetery, Magnolia, American College of Building Arts. https://preservationthroughart.org/current-show/