Name/Title
Lytton Gardens - Virginia Deeds - Persimmons in AutumnDescription
Virginia, known as Gini, has been painting since she was a child in St. Louis, Missouri, where she was born. She fondly remembers copying cartoons from the Sunday papers and Saturday morning visits to the city's Museum of Art, where children were given postcards of the museum’s artworks and told to find them.
She lived in New York State for 28 years, where Gini combined raising five children with personnel work at both the University of Rochester and the Valley Manor retirement home. A special adventure in her life was driving cross country to Palo Alto.
Gini began her art education at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and has travelled in Europe and the U.S. to visit art museums. She has also had two retreat experiences in Martha's Vineyard, one of which
included a show of her portraits and landscapes.
Since 1989 she has lived in Palo Alto, where she has studied art with a variety of local artists, including Grace Gibson, watercolorist Floy Zittin, Linda Logan, and now AWE instructor Sarah Dwyer. Her art has been exhibited at annual shows at the Menlo Park Art League and Lytton Gardens. This watercolor, which Virginia says "painted itself," is based on one of her own photographs.
