This goes back to a childhood habit--of living in rural Virginia and seeking woods and creeks and lakes for solitary refuge; places where I could sketch and paint.
"[7] She received a BA with Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, in art history and painting, from Smith College in 1966.
[9] Joellyn Duesberry was a plein air painter, who began "her canvases outdoors on an easel and finish[ed] them in the studio, frequently making monotypes in between.
[5] In that year she received an Individual Painting Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts[5] to work with Richard Diebenkorn.
[11] In 1984, Duesberry met Dr. Ira Kowal, a Denver cardiologist, while at a dinner party in Vail.