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Now in the Vivid Stage Lobby:

A promise made, a promise kept.
The artwork of Joan Speare

I knew I wanted to try oil painting, but life got in the way -
marriage, divorce, raising children alone. I promised myself that I
would paint when I retired. Cancer forced me to leave the
corporate world. So I started painting. Ten years later I am happily
creating art with oils and have won several awards including First
Prize in the Essex County Senior Art Show 2020 along the way.
Several pieces have sold, which is the best affirmation of my talent.
And here I am having a solo show. No one is more amazed than I.
I am at last doing what I have wanted to do for so many years. But
I can’t help wondering what life would have been like had I been
able to begin painting earlier in life.