A Beauty We Didn't Expect
A Beauty We Didn't Expect
Jennifer Drinkwater, A Beauty We Didn’t Expect, acrylic and tempera on wood panel, 36” H x 48” W x 2.75” D, 2021.
A Beauty We Didn’t Expect arrives wired and ready to hang. My genius husband Aaron Swanson carefully crafts each panel with high-quality wood, mounting a smooth plywood surface onto a sturdy, mitred wooden frame that provides depth and support to the painting. The sides of the panel are sanded and finished for smoothness.
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Twenty percent of profits will support Blackmur Memorial Library in Water Valley, Mississippi, one of the two independent libraries in the state.
The community story that inspired A Beauty We Didn’t Expect….
In 2016-2017, retired writer Dixie Scovel moved from her Long Island home to Water Valley, Mississippi. In 2019, I asked her about some of the good things about her new community, and she described the landscape and the language.
“The whole landscape of it, I love. And the clouds. I'm driving towards Oxford, and it's a very blue sky, and all the cumulus clouds just sort of rise up in the horizon. So there is a beauty to it that I didn't expect.
It reminds me I was born in western Pennsylvania, and there are times in the winter when I drive through here and the fields are brown. It looks exactly like Western Pennsylvania. The hills there are more rugged, but it's similar. I went to grade school and high school in upstate New York, and it is similar to that also. We had the lakes. All of that beauty is here. It's a little different. The sky's different on Long Island. We had more gray and lighter blue. But, all of that beauty is here and I appreciate it.”