Unfortunately, the 2021 Bon Air Artists annual show has been rescheduled to February of 2022. Here’re the paintings I would have shown this year. By next year there may be a whole new crop!
All of these are in watercolor, 14″x11″. As travel was limited this year, four of them are in our neighborhood or at least in Virginia. The other three of the Patterson, Georgia Atlantic Coast Line Depot are from old black and white photos. I’ve chosen colors based on what I remember. Input from the Atlantic Coast Line / Seaboard Air Line Historical Society Facebook group was invaluable, as they provided me the colors of the ACL passenger cars of 1953.
The Brighton Green bridge over our local stream was built by neighbors and put in place five or ten years ago. It replace a flat plant version that continually washed out in heavy rains. I find it appealing, particularly when caught in mid-Summer sunlight!
The three country paintings are from a day trip with my daughter to a friend’s farm in Buckingham County, Virginia, near where my father grew up. The shed caught my interest and the locust trees provided deep shade. Part of the goal of the trip was to allow their rambunctious puppy free range to run out his abundant energy!
My grandmother worked for years as the station agent at the Patterson, Georgia ACL depot. I have fond memories of playing on her typewriter, getting weighted on the huge freight scale, and watching fascinated as she took and sent Morse code on the telegraph key. The source photo for the painting of the school children boarding the train was probably taken by my mother as I joined the kindergarten excursion in 1953. The second painting, Walking to the Depot, is from a photo I took in 1960 after the depot had been freshly painted. Purple trim was added in accord with the ACL royal purple color scheme of the time. The third painting of the Depot is from a circa 1970 photo, photographer unknown, that was included on an early map of Patterson.
Back to my studio!
Dan Springs Collection 