Robert Bateman is a Canadian artist. He’s one of the most celebrated wildlife painters.
His paintings start selling for close to $20,000, and it goes up from there.
I suspect he doesn’t remember but I met him once.
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I enjoyed chatting recently with Alexandra Gronfors as she sat in her waterfront-view condo in downtown Barrie, Ontario.
I didn’t put a timer on it, but I’m pretty sure she was smiling for 90 per cent of our 30-minute Skype chat. When she wasn’t smiling, she was laughing.
Alexandra is high energy and, if you know her story, she’s also inspiring. If you don’t know her story, I hope you can catch a glimpse of it through the interview below.
[Featured Artwork: “ARThur” by Alexandra Gronfors. Original acrylic on canvas. 38″x48″]
Our old kitchen table was covered in microscopic specks of paint. I hadn’t noticed them for months. Yet, when I did, I spent the better part of an afternoon trying to clean them off.
I shared all about this evil afternoon several months back.
Shortly after reading that Saturday Morning Story my wife confessed: “In my defense: I noticed them and tried to clean them, but they were oil-based paint.”
Well, that’s great.
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