Land of the Free

Blue Ridge Parkway Paintings By Dawn Richerson

Here on the hill with the willow tree, they who thought themselves to be confined were, at last, set free. On the far horizon stood the eagle guardian, issuing an invitation for all to see the magic of the changing skies and the tree translucent and transfigured as they too had been in the strangeness of a wild wind that stirred. This Soul of Place painting inspired by an experience at Falling Creek State Park in Bedford, Virginia, is part of the Give Me Liberty! series and the Bedford Beauty Collection of paintings by Virginia artist Dawn Richerson.