Helen Tilston is answering the call to come to Indian Rocks Beach


A summer of travel to Venice Italy, where I painted the elegant buildings, the canal and lagoon. To Madrid where I studied the at the artist Sorolla's home. To New York, New Hampshire and Toronto where I have painted too.

This little painting of a place I hold very dear to my heart is my latest. My easel is set up and the bougainvillia have left a sufficient gap for me to paint the Gulf of Mexico.

Ahh! bliss

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