stories
M A R Y L A R S O N A R T s e a t t l e
When my paintings were hung at the clinic where I work, without having been told, patients began to identify that many of the portraits were of homeless people. One man said, “They look the same everywhere. I was homeless once and I know that those are paintings of homeless people...I just know it.” Before long, patients began asking me to paint their portraits. And so I began bringing my camera to work, taking photos of folks and going home at night to paint their portraits. These are stories of some of the extraordinary people I’ve had the honor of painting.