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Meg Winnecour
The Summer of Kids and Monarchs
Acrylic on salvaged cabinet door
I love to paint on salvaged cabinet doors because not only do they contribute a homey feeling to the paintings they support, but they also allow me to turn trash into something permanent and beautiful. Painting on old cabinet doors is, for me, a way of being a “green artist.”
This painting, created from start to finish in the early weeks of August, was an outpouring of wonder and reverence for messy, raucous, heartbreaking, astonishing life. Still charged from an inspiring summer working at a summer camp with kids in the midst of major and positive life transformation, word found me: a mentor and friend had died unexpectedly. In many ways, John Payne, artist and owner of the Wedge Building in Asheville’s River Arts District, was a regal monarch. He was also a wonderful kid at heart. Certainly he incited seismic changes in perception and ability in each of the artists he supported. With a brimming and grateful heart for having been lucky enough to learn from and know John Payne, Summer of Kids and Monarchs came to be. May we all be the change we want to see in the world. John Payne certainly was.
