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Painting by Cheryl Korb

NARROWSBURG, NY — “Animals & Farms,” an exhibit of the work of Cheryl Korb, will be on display at The River Gallery - The Art of Living on Main Street starting on July 21. There will be an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will run through September 8.

A self-taught artist from Northeastern Pennsylvania, Korb still lives on the farm where she was born. After raising a family of three children, she has had time to pursue her dream of painting the subject she knows best: her own backyard.

Working in a tiny studio, formerly a closet off her bedroom, with a tiny window, she uses one-hair brushes to create her paintings. Throughout these finely sketched works are people doing their chores, waving hello, sitting for a picnic, flying a kite, riding a bike. Animals gambol, old stone walls, covered bridges, tractors and pails and stables emerge between fields of crops, trees flowering or dropping their leaves, distant hills, or blankets of snow. Visit www.rivergalleryny.com.