Artist: Brenda Lyday | Location: Valdese, NC
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Artist: Brenda Lyday | Location: Valdese, NC
Valdese, NC
I am Brenda Lyday, age 61, living in Valdese, North Carolina. I am a self-taught artist and an avid collector of antique photographs, often turning to them for inspiration. My collection of photographs focuses on the working class. In these photos I find honest and raw emotion that I try to capture in my work. As a child growing up, each weekend we would visit my grandparents in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Barns, meals cooked on woodstoves, vegetable gardens, root cellars, overalls, and aprons, these evoke my fondest memories. My work is meant to transports the viewer to a simpler time, even though simpler was not always easier.