"I paint on tar, cuz color n light covers the darkness...bringin myself outta the dark" --Maw Bear
....Maw Bear's World....
enJoy!!!
MAW HAS BEEN DRAWING ALL HER LIFE AS BOTH HER PARENTS AND GREAT GRANDFATHER WERE ARTISTS; BUT DID NOT RELEASE HERSELF TO BE CREATIVE UNTIL JULY OF 2007... DUE TO BEING STIFLED FROM FEELINGS/ MEMORIES/ FEAR OF DEATH... RELATING TO HER PARENTS' DEATHS BY DRUNK DRIVERS AT THE AGE OF ELEVEN...TEXAN BY BIRTH AND NOW RESIDING IN THE GREAT BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS...FOR MORE SEE THE BIO PAGE, THANK YOU AND enJOY!!!
* Special Thanks goes to the Henderson and Haywood Counties Arts Councils as well as the Tryon Fine Arts Center for awarding Kimberly Webber Young/ Maw Bear with a Regional Artists' Grant for 2008; enabling her to paint 160 more paintings. Each piece they have funded will have attached a authenticity form stating their funding. Again, Thank you!!! to the Arts Councils of North Caroina,
In memory of the greatest Momma and Daddy -people God ever created: Jean Ann and Donald E Webber. " Thank you for the most wonderful years o my life...only eleven of them but the most impresionable I had...you made me."
* Thanks for stopping by folks....if you do not enjoy the music simply turn off with the button below each page... be sure to view more Art on the Art page, Biography on Bio page, n so on, Thanks! Maw
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10% of all profits go to Mainstay Abuse Shelter in Hendersonville NC
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