Jenny Pickens Paints To Remember The Mother She's Never Known

16/11/2020 4 min

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Episode Synopsis

Artists often clean their studios before visitors arrive. But inside her Swannanoa home, Jenny Pickens ' painting studio is always immaculate. The first clue that this is so: Pickens' studio is carpeted--a rarity among painters--and you won't find a drop of other color on the plush butterscotch. "Growing up, I had limited space. My grandmother, oh gosh, she would fuss at me all the time--'you wake up with a crayon, you go to bed with a crayon,'" she recalled. "I had to be clean with whatever I used."

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