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Pngo 30?SuppUmtnl lo Th? Brun?wlck Bcocon. April-Moy. 1985 BET W7<^IGSB He i B BF^BSSL^ " HP ^VDWHHBHUI H*H KlMNUV4( KKT1HF.MK.NT IJVlNCi at Hidden Hearh Rives Northern transplant Kdoa Hoehme lime to pursue her artistic bobbles sod friends to share them with. Here she's surrounded by her handiwork. Pill I Discover the nu?l delightful and ??him?irAl ?hop(>in* e\nerirme on thr (>r?ml Nr*ml in ihe | charming ?tmtw{?hrrr of an authentic I 1913 general tore. l*la> our old-time I nickelodeon. rrM a ?|>cll in the dtnle of j our beautiful \ ietorian-?t> le gateho. ami enjoy the minrU of the *ea in our *hell j hop.aUo an authentic old general store. I travel kkrc-ugti ike <Md 1 mHd *?tlh u* and a _ am aiwii afttlqUTf. pPCf?Uia. | pfntfr. drcin*. miniature*. br???. aatn- HH I rd |Um, katirti, Jfa*lr>, pooler* ami I I decorative armwnr*. Latent Arti i*iL? rJ_. v VI ICI I LUIIV BY SUSAN USHER A toie puuiiinK class tii New York State- led Edna Bcchmc tc Brunswick County and to Holden Beach. After four years at 127 Lion's Paw Drive, she still doesn't regret the move south. "We really lucked out when we moved here," she reflected over a cup of coffee recently, her husband Al nodding Ills agreement from a comfortable seat overlooking the canal. Friends from up north agree when they visit, which isfrequently as possible. And the Boehmes' four children "are practically commuters on Piedmont," Edna said. "We have the "best neighborhood on the beach," agreed Daphne Kournier, a bubbly friend who dropped in to discuss plans for a neighborhood fish fry. lion's Paw neighbors get together for street parties, fish fries and covered dish dinners, occasionally blocking off the street in the summertime. In Heritage Harbor the Boehmes have found friendship; at Holden Beach Edna also has found an abunI dance of material for her developing painter's eye. Until several months before the move to Holden Beach she'd never put paint to canvas. But her success stic Talent E _ o _ _ U r J uOci nii%> with tole painting prompted her to try other art forms. Now she spends much of her time painting?on wood, on fabric or metal and on canvas, with subjects ranging from whim sical to serious. "It's really hit and miss," she said of her oils on canvas. "I've never had any lessons. One day I just decided I'd see what happened." She paints directly on the canvas from an idea or, when details are necessary, from a snapshot. "I don't know how to sketch," she admitted. On the wall above the floral print couch hang several of her oils, including a quiet scene of Al walking along the beach. Beside it hangs Edna's third painting, a cool waterfall scene that was done not once, but twice. Not quite satisfied with the rcsuus, sne stripped uie canvasDoara and started anew. Just to the right of the waterfall hangs her latest work, which she said may or may not be completed. The landscape depicts Betty'z. Waterfront Restaurant and the shrimp boats docked nearby across the waterway at Old Kerry Road. The piece hasn't been sprayed. "It may be finished; I'm not sure," said Kdna as she eyed the painting, i "1 pick too much. I don't know when BigC r*3P PH(V ikjkgyj m open rVanna i Hi \th'i^ ? I X'O wv to stop, when something's finished." One major work is finished?a commissifinen murai 01 anauoue inlet painted directly on a wall of Brunswick Village Nursing Home in Shallotte. "I had never painted anything so big before," she said. It was a week-long project, with Edna "working on a ladder with these great big three-inch brushes," she said, stretching her hands apart. Workmen were still completing the facility, and, said Al, "She almost stopped the job. The people would sit there and watch her work." It was fun, a job taken on as a new challenge. "I figured the worst thing that could happen was they could paint the wall," she said. They didn't, of course, and friends regularly drive into Shallotte to look at her biggest painUng to date. uucm laieni tnoomea Artistic ability apparently runs in her family?Edna's father was a lace designer and manufacturer and, later in life, a painter. Several other family members also display an artistic bent; their worfc can be found at Edna's house also. Edna had no time to pair.t until after she and her husband retired (See BOEHME, Page 22) iviiimi $pl S 1ID El ID nwma^l raiaiinJM nal SE 1883(249-2174 10 AM to 10 PM OR : Ha! Lewis. Owners LITTLE RIVER, S.C. "HK PARSON'S TABLE
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