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“Helen on the Garden Path” is an original artwork that I made, created from 2 things: One, a cut-out from an antique sepia photograph of my great-grandmother when she was a young teenage girl about 1917 or 1918 (GGma was Helen Enoch Gleiforst, a noted California Impressionist artist!!). And two, the cut-out photo was set into an image of Helen’s own later artwork, a lovely plein aire landscape oil painting she did ca. late 1930s to early 1940s, and a fine example of one of her original paintings.

I find it utterly delightful that GGma is fotobombing her own artwork!! It’s fun to imagine her as a girl having fun ~~ over a hundred years ago!! This piece would bring magic to any child young or older and heck adults too! lol!! .

As a young girl, I hung out with Great-Grandma, Helen Mae (Enoch) Gleiforst, who was a noted California Impressionist artist, and watched her paint in her studio. She did wonderful landscapes and gardens and florals. Though G-G was certainly an influence in terms of first perking my interest in art, of much greater influence, however, was my mom, also an artist, and the good deal of time I spent hanging out with her in the Santa Barbara City College Art Department. There my mom not only created art but also was a TA for art history and the basic understanding art classes. Often, I’d join her in the slide room where she was pulling slides for her sessions or I’d sit in on them. There I got to look at tons of art on slides and hear...