"The French Laundry Garden", Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20, 2012

My husband and I dined at The French Laundry on a Napa Valley trip in 2007.  It was the most amazing meal I've ever experienced.  The next morning, we walked from our Yountville B & B to the French Laundry kitchen gardens so I could take some photos, which led me to paint this canvas of a kitchen garden section September 2012.  If you like this painting, you might like to bid on it this Thursday.  I donated it to Manna Meal Art in the Garden Benefit Auction, which will be Thursday, October 18, 2012 at The Clay Center in Charleston, WV from 6 - 9 PM.  Proceeds will support Manna Meal soup kitchen, which has served over 1 million meals to date.  Opening bid is $100.  Contact Manna Meal 7:30 am - 2pm EST Monday-Friday at 304-345-7121 for more information.  They accept only cash or checks, sorry.  Admission to the benefit is free, and there will be over 70 works of art in the auction, so it might be worth a short trip.

Art in the Garden...so the Hungry can Eat Benefit for Manna Meal

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