“At nine years old, my father presented me with a small set of Rembrandt pastels. We had no money at the time, so I don’t know how he afforded it. But I set about copying Jean Honore Fragonard’s painting of ‘A Young Girl Reading’. My father framed that little drawing and it hung in our living room for many years. It was at that moment I fell in love with pastels.” ~ Marie Wise
Series of Water Reflections Paintings








loved this story, sweet,