Road Trip

I wish I could post a link to an artist I met today. Well, technically I met her last August when Ron and I were wandering around St. Michaels, Maryland. This morning I went on a road trip with my friend Elizabeth – we drove two hours from Washington DC to the artist’s house.

Anyway, I can’t post a link to her work because she doesn’t have a website…

Can’t post an address because she doesn’t have a studio…

Can’t post a phone number because she doesn’t have an answering machine…

This is a wild guess, but I think she doesn’t have these things because, well, who needs those distractions really? She has a lovely gift (painting), a beautiful family (husband and kids), a fun job (teaching art on the Chesapeake Bay), and a cozy welcoming home with rocking chairs on her front porch (and not only rocking chairs, but blankets too). Why add computer glitches and voicemail messages to that mix?

I’m sure my friend Elizabeth and I were quite a sight when the artist pulled into her driveway after work and discovered the two of us swaying back and forth on her front porch waving hello…

The artist was welcoming and joyful and gave us a tour of her house where she showed us her work. She paints landscape with Scripture:

Psalm 147:14 - He makes peace within your borders

Psalm 46:10 - Be still and know that I am God

Matthew 6:28 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you?

The best info I can pass on is this: if you’re ever wandering the eastern shores of Maryland and stumble across an art fair, keep your eye out for Heather Crow and her gorgeous artwork.