More Items of Interest about Sandy Ezell
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Sandy was the Director of Arts and
Crafts Center at Fort Harrison for 17 years. Besides teaching
classes, she also did matting and framing. She recalls a time when
a veteran came in and wanted to know when she might have time to devote
to a framing job that could be done while he waited. To Sandy's
surprise, she ended up framing an original painting by Adolph Hitler.
When Fort Harrison closed, Sandy was able to buy some of the equipment
and now does matting and framing in her own studio. One challenging
piece was a painting Sandy had done of a barn window in Door County,
Wisconsin. It was painted on circular paper. Sandy floated
it on painted illustration
board giving the piece an almost magnified effect. One of Sandy's more unusual mountings |
| Floyd Hopper was one of Sandy's mentors
as well as a friend. When Jim wanted a special Christmas present
for Sandy one year, he contacted Floyd and asked him to paint a picture
of Sandy. Jim had photographed her while she painted on location
in Coon Valley, Wisconsin. Floyd agreed to do the painting and
when it was finished a couple of months early, Jim hung it in his office
for safe keeping. Jim was a school principal and knew that Sandy
never visited him at work. Well, almost never. Sandy burst
into Jim's office to tell him some news and stood looking at herself in
the painting.
Her present was a little early that year.
Painting of Sandy Ezell by Floyd Hopper |
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Sandy is always expanding her vision.
She experiments with watercolor, acrylic and ink on different backgrounds.
She uses not only a paintbrush, but also spray bottles, cheesecloth,
mediums, etcetera to get different effects. She then looks at the piece
from various perspectives to see what it suggests. It may be the
beginning of a landscape or the background for flowers. Sandy is
not limited by a preconceived idea of what the piece should be.
She wants the viewer to be involved in the painting, to see something
that only the viewer may understand and together they have a dialogue.
Sandy at work in a segment on HGTV's Our Place |
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