This is a portrait of a 2 1/2 year old girl who is meeting her infant brother in the hospital for the first time. She is allowed to hold him with an adult's help and is glowing. She is smiling slightly as if she knows they will become best friends.
This painting was in the 2022 North Carolina Statewide Pastel Exhibition "On Common Ground: From the Mountains to the Sea", May 16, 2022 to June 30, 2022, Juror— Michael Chesley Johnson, AIS, PSA, MPAC