Janice Dumas Watercolor

Twenty-two years ago I took a trip to Ireland with Carl,  my parents, my sister, and brother-in-law. It was my mother's life-long dream to visit the places her grandparents came from. We had a wonderful trip - we visited Waterford, Kilkenny, Dublin, Ennis, and Cork; we went to Blarney Castle, watched them make Waterford Crystal, and saw the Book of Kells at Trinity College. Ultimately, we ended up in Kilmihil, where my great-grandfather was from and learned a lot about his family. 

When we got home I did this painting of some doors we saw in Kilkenny - it was 1993. This was the first painting I did where I got that excited feeling that it was going to be something special. I started to think I could be good at this...

Four months after we took that trip I lost my mother to cancer. I'm so glad we took that once-in-a-lifetime trip.

My mother-in-law loved and purchased the painting. She's been gone three years now, and I have the painting back. It's one of the few I will never sell.