I slept with the windows open at the foot of Papaw Jim’s mountain. The babbling brook lulled me to sleep; and to the crisp Appalachian air of late November I gently awoke. The light streamed in across the quilt, hand-stitched by my great aunt Joyce. It was Thanksgiving morning in the holler known as Dry Fork.

That day I explored, sketched, took pictures researched my Virginia family heritage, wrote down recipes and learned to make biscuits. Some years later, amid the covid-19 global pandemic, I began a series of paintings. Locked down at home in Alabama on Easter morning 2020, I returned to my memory of that Thanksgiving and painted Morning in Dry Fork.

-Sarah West

Morning in Dry Fork is now available in print.

Print Paper Size 14″w x 11″h

Image Size 11.5″ x 8.5″

To acquire your archival, signed print of Morning in Dry Fork,

email sarahwestgallery@att.net

telephone 334-480-2008

visit The Sarah West Gallery of Fine Art, A Center for Cultural Arts in Smiths Station, Alabama.