20x30 framed Museum print(This piece is at the Historical Society Museum gift shop Portsmouth)

When I was eight, our school went to a field trip to Strawbery Banke. I fell in love with it then, the gardens, the crowded turn of the century houses. It was such a beautiful escape. Now I live close by and I paint such an amazing part of Portsmouth.Strawbery Banke is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth. It features more than 37 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian and Federal style architectures. The darkest colored house is the oldest house in the group.The buildings once clustered around a way of life in the beautiful city of Portsmouth. It looks like a cold day in this piece. I have warmed up the deep colors with bits of orange and a splash of pink.