“I just enjoy moving paint around,” said Kay Todd about her art, some of which is exhibited on the side of Interstate Gas/Conoco Food Mart.
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“I just enjoy moving paint around,” said Kay Todd about her art, some of which is exhibited on the side of Interstate Gas/Conoco Food Mart.
For many who have developed control over what moves from their heads through their hands to paper or canvas, art is a way of dealing with life. Todd was raised in a less-than-affluent home and art was an escape.
“I could arrange a painting when I couldn’t arrange life,” she said. “It was a way of building an alternate life.”
The replica of T-shirts sold in Brian and Trish Richmond’s store came about after Todd painted a mural on the wall of their son Landon’s room and one on the door of the bar at their cabin. They were impressed with those and asked if she could “blow customers away” with her rendition of that saying in a much larger form. As well, hidden in the mural is “LOR,” young Landon’s initials.