With Mom
***NOTE***
This painting is currently on display at the North Shore Bank headquarters in Duluth, Minnesota as part of Kelly Schamberger’s TIDES solo exhibit. Purchased painting will be retrieved, delivered, or shipped upon the show’s close on June 26, 2025. Arrangements will be made via contact information provided at check-out.
Painting Specs
3.5”x5” original gouache landscape painting on acid-free cold press watercolor paper
Custom-framed in contemporary maple frame with white mat, reduced-glare picture glass, and ready-to-hang wire
9.25”x11.25” outside frame measurements
About
My dad was diagnosed with stage four liver bile duct cancer two days before Christmas in 2023, and at the time his choices were chemo or hospice. Initially, he decided that he didn’t want to spend the remaining months of his life sick from the potential side effects of chemo. However, the next time I visited with him, he informed me that he had decided to fight… even if it would only gain him a few more months with us.
In those months, he got to see me on the cover of two magazines, included in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, honored in the Rosie Awards, watch my art land on the moon LIVE on CNN, brag about me over the phone on a newscast, see me teach and judge art competitions, cheer me on as I traveled to Rwanda, and tell me over and over how proud he was of me… his “legacy.” It was a year of bonus time that I will forever cherish.
After his funeral in February 2025, I asked my mom where she was going to travel first… as she had spent much of the past few years caring for Dad. I thought she’d say France or Greece or somewhere exotic, but she surprised me with wanting to visit her granddaughter in Florida. In March, we traveled down for my dad’s birthday week… and on the last day, drove out to St. Petersburg to visit the Dali Museum and spend the day at the beach. As I sat and painted pink sand and green waves with my mom beside me, watching the girls play on the beach, it occurred to me that it was the first time I had felt happy and at peace in a very, very, very long time.
***NOTE***
This painting is currently on display at the North Shore Bank headquarters in Duluth, Minnesota as part of Kelly Schamberger’s TIDES solo exhibit. Purchased painting will be retrieved, delivered, or shipped upon the show’s close on June 26, 2025. Arrangements will be made via contact information provided at check-out.
Painting Specs
3.5”x5” original gouache landscape painting on acid-free cold press watercolor paper
Custom-framed in contemporary maple frame with white mat, reduced-glare picture glass, and ready-to-hang wire
9.25”x11.25” outside frame measurements
About
My dad was diagnosed with stage four liver bile duct cancer two days before Christmas in 2023, and at the time his choices were chemo or hospice. Initially, he decided that he didn’t want to spend the remaining months of his life sick from the potential side effects of chemo. However, the next time I visited with him, he informed me that he had decided to fight… even if it would only gain him a few more months with us.
In those months, he got to see me on the cover of two magazines, included in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, honored in the Rosie Awards, watch my art land on the moon LIVE on CNN, brag about me over the phone on a newscast, see me teach and judge art competitions, cheer me on as I traveled to Rwanda, and tell me over and over how proud he was of me… his “legacy.” It was a year of bonus time that I will forever cherish.
After his funeral in February 2025, I asked my mom where she was going to travel first… as she had spent much of the past few years caring for Dad. I thought she’d say France or Greece or somewhere exotic, but she surprised me with wanting to visit her granddaughter in Florida. In March, we traveled down for my dad’s birthday week… and on the last day, drove out to St. Petersburg to visit the Dali Museum and spend the day at the beach. As I sat and painted pink sand and green waves with my mom beside me, watching the girls play on the beach, it occurred to me that it was the first time I had felt happy and at peace in a very, very, very long time.
***NOTE***
This painting is currently on display at the North Shore Bank headquarters in Duluth, Minnesota as part of Kelly Schamberger’s TIDES solo exhibit. Purchased painting will be retrieved, delivered, or shipped upon the show’s close on June 26, 2025. Arrangements will be made via contact information provided at check-out.
Painting Specs
3.5”x5” original gouache landscape painting on acid-free cold press watercolor paper
Custom-framed in contemporary maple frame with white mat, reduced-glare picture glass, and ready-to-hang wire
9.25”x11.25” outside frame measurements
About
My dad was diagnosed with stage four liver bile duct cancer two days before Christmas in 2023, and at the time his choices were chemo or hospice. Initially, he decided that he didn’t want to spend the remaining months of his life sick from the potential side effects of chemo. However, the next time I visited with him, he informed me that he had decided to fight… even if it would only gain him a few more months with us.
In those months, he got to see me on the cover of two magazines, included in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, honored in the Rosie Awards, watch my art land on the moon LIVE on CNN, brag about me over the phone on a newscast, see me teach and judge art competitions, cheer me on as I traveled to Rwanda, and tell me over and over how proud he was of me… his “legacy.” It was a year of bonus time that I will forever cherish.
After his funeral in February 2025, I asked my mom where she was going to travel first… as she had spent much of the past few years caring for Dad. I thought she’d say France or Greece or somewhere exotic, but she surprised me with wanting to visit her granddaughter in Florida. In March, we traveled down for my dad’s birthday week… and on the last day, drove out to St. Petersburg to visit the Dali Museum and spend the day at the beach. As I sat and painted pink sand and green waves with my mom beside me, watching the girls play on the beach, it occurred to me that it was the first time I had felt happy and at peace in a very, very, very long time.