This billowy head bent my way among the last of May’s peonies this year. While it is complex in multi-petaled layers, I tried to see it in the most simple masses before working toward just enough and no more detail.

Grace to Paint
Weekly Oil Paintings by Sister Maresa Lilley, SND
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race to Paint
Weekly Oil Paintings
by Sister Maresa Lilley, SND
This billowy head bent my way among the last of May’s peonies this year. While it is complex in multi-petaled layers, I tried to see it in the most simple masses before working toward just enough and no more detail.

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This work was painted five years ago and sold; I enter it here

We sometimes forget that Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was so like us
I am Sister Maresa Lilley, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame, located in Chardon, Ohio, USA. For many years, I have enjoyed a passion that permits me to reflect upon simple reality with a brush in hand. To capture a simple essence on canvas and to discover inherent beauty is a daily immersion.
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