Porch at the Nu-Wray Inn, Burnsville, NC

This work, done at the Nu-Wray Inn (now Hotel) in Burnsville, NC is an artist's favorite and one of her best watercolors. It is in a wood frame.

"My favorite place was the “Burnsville Painting Classes” (SeeCelo) in North Carolina. John Bryan and Everret Kivette were teachers there who took over the classes started by Frank Stanley Herring and his wife, Frances. I attended classes there in the summer for two weeks over the course of ten years. The criticism was frank but never cutting.

We mostly stayed at the Nu Wray Inn which had wonderful country food—a huge breakfast with grits, ham, etc., and dinner with vegetables and southern cooking. I would paint all morning at the studio on the mountain, come back eat lunch, paint all afternoon, eat dinner, sit on the porch, and watch all the people go by. My favorite place to do work was early morning or late afternoon on the front porch of the Nu Wray Inn."