WARDSBORO — Local artist Betsy Fellows will have a posthumous display of her watercolor paintings from in and around Wardsboro at the Wardsboro Public Library during the month of December.
Many of these paintings have been donated to the library for permanent display by her daughters Donna Fellows McPherson and Dianne Fellows Guminak. Many others, which have been collected, and which depict the essence of local New England communities, will also be shown at the exhibit. Both daughters will exhibit their works as well, showing that Mrs. Fellows' legacy lives on through them.
Fellows was especially fond of the architecture of Vermont farms with leaning barns and captured many of their images before they disappeared, according to a news release. She was inspired by, and painted with, Arlo Monroe, who also celebrated the landscape of Southern Vermont in his work.
Originally from the Boston area, Fellows and her husband Russ and daughters settled in Dover, at the Snowflake Lodge in the 1950s. She liked to capture local scenes, setting up her easel along Route 100 and on Wardsboro's back roads.
Fellows was a member of the Southern Vermont Artist's Association in Manchester and was a founding member of “Art on the Mountain,” an annual art show and fundraiser for the Deerfield Valley Health Center.