Original Watercolor by Judy Lavoie

IMAGE SIZE: 15" x 22"

STATUS: In the Artist's Personal Collection

"I decided to do this still life painting when my mother sent me a crayon drawing on newsprint, shown to the right, which I had done as a child. Years earlier she had written "By Judy, age 7" on the back. Upon receiving this, I asked if she still had the Hull vase I had drawn (that was a chandelier I made up in the background, by the way). She had already given it to my sister Jean, who I was grateful to when she passed it on to me. So I ordered some yellow and pink tulips from a local florist and set up the still life, with a cherished old sepia photo of my mother and her sister as children. And 35 years after my original, I created 'Now and Then'! The two works now hang in my home, displayed with the Hull vase that twice inspired me."