My eldest daughter painted this portrait of my grandmother, Lillian. She used a black and white photograph as a reference and she jazzed Gramma up a bit. I love the pink frames, red lipstick and auburn hair. My grandmother was Southern Baptist and very conservative, but I think she would approve of this portrait and enjoy the escape into a world of brilliant color.
"Her life and the people in it provided wonderful material for her songs,
but The Foundling took her, and indeed most, autobiographical
songwriting to an entirely new level. Gauthier had been given up for
adoption at birth and after half a lifetime of going off the rails and
getting back on them, she tracked down a mother who didn’t want to meet
her. The Foundling is that story, and she tells it without blinking,
without self-pity, and in a way that makes its lessons — the acceptance
of what life throws at you and the redemption to be found in that
acceptance — applicable to all of us."
