Dot Courson Fine Art Blog

I recently took down a painting to take to Southern Breeze Gallery in Ridgeland, MS who had been selling lots of my work last month, in order to replace sold paintings and it sold almost immediately. It was a large painting and there is a hole I need to fill on the wall in my home where I had had it for a year or more. Homeplace 40x30 $2600 - Sold! I had planned to replace it with the painting Mississippi Overlook but before I could it sold too!  Mississippi Overlook 48x36 -$3400- Sold! My plan now is to complete another homeplace type painting. But in the meantime I will just hang my snow scene. Jacqueline Ellens at Southern Breeze said she has never sold a snow scene in that gallery...EVER! So I will just keep it on my wall as a reminder of the cold weather we had last January with this scene up the road from my home. But it will be for sale too, eventually. I always consider my best painting to be the one I am working on at the time, so I imagine I can replace...

I have sold a couple of gems recently that were personal favorites to me. One was Baptism at Moon Lake . It is now on it’s way to its new home in Norway! I know that it will be loved from talking to the collector. She shared with me that it is a gift to her husband on their 26th wedding Anniversary. Above is a southern staple that is quickly becoming obsolete. Delta Cotton , 24 x36, was purchased by a collector from Nashville at one of my solo shows in the fall of 2009... She touched my heart as she told me that her father was a cotton farmer and had always told her stories of his love for farming. That made the “adoption” of the painting even more special. She and I have remained friends and I look forward to visiting with her at her cabin on the TN river this spring. Homeplace  on the Hill , 11x 14 is a painting that meant the world to me and sadly I wasn’t able to communicate with the owner. It sold in one of my galleries and this particular gallery does not share...