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PHOTOS BY JAIME CALDER

Artists Carol Light (left) and Sue Bishop Spahn (right) discussing color palettes in Carol’s Walburg-based studio.

Grazing the Fault

A work created through friendship and collaboration

By Kempa Rider art show featuring student work. As she throughout the area, including at Sun City
admired the work of her peers, Sue thought Texas’ Visual Arts Studio where she served
Entering the lobby of the new Sheraton Ho- to herself, “I can do better than that… and as a guest instructor during the commu-
tel and Conference Center in Georgetown, it will look good, too!” Sue began to study nity’s early years.
Texas, one cannot help but be captivated by art, developing her talents and allowing
the kaleidoscopic artwork hanging behind her passion to bloom. It was during this watercolor class that
the reception desk. Titled “Grazing the friendship first sparked between Carol and
Fault,” this piece is comprised of two con- Sue was looking to expand her skills when Sue. Though the two often spent time to-
nected canvases stretching a combined 14 she signed up for a watercolor class taught gether, for many years they painted sepa-
feet wide by 5 feet high. It is the product of by a Walburg-based artist named Carol rately – Sue working with abstract impres-
two talented local artists whose collabora- Light. An artist from a young age, Carol’s sionism; Carol with figures, landscapes
tion began years ago - though neither knew painting skills developed quickly thanks and watercolors.
it at the time. to an acute sense of observation. Though
painting had been merely a hobby in her While attending an art show about three
Sun City Texas resident Sue Bishop Spahn younger years, Carol began painting full- years ago, Sue met two artists whose works
first became interested in painting as a time after moving from Austin to Walburg. were a result of collaboration. This sparked
student at East Texas State University. It Carol built up a reputation as a talented Sue’s curiosity. After returning from the
was there that Sue happened to attend an local artist and began teaching painting show, Sue contacted her good friend and
proposed experimenting with this coop-
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