Joanlee Ferrara: Teacher, friend and respected artist. In her memory, her family has donated the paintings below to Villa Duchesne, where she taught happily for so many years, and the alumnae association to which both she and her daughter belonged. Browse the pictures and descriptions below. To bid on a painting, put a comment below it on this site or send an email to elferrara@yahoo.co.uk. We will award the paintings to the highest bids at 3:30pm on Saturday, 12 March, the date of Joanlee's memorial service.

All proceeds will go to fund art education at Villa Duchesne.

Saturday 19 February 2011

Irish Wheat Field

Framed. 9.75" x 12.5". Can hang or sit on table top when built in arm is extended. Mom was swept away by the beauty of the Irish countryside when we explored it during the late summer of 1999. Though the famous greens were a delight to the eye, she was much more taken by the startling contrast of the golden, freshly-harvested wheat fields on the landscape. This one stretched away from the veranda of our B&B, a Georgian country house near Waterford. I like the contrast of the formal urn on the lower left with the country beyond it. This is also a particularly lovely frame.

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