PAINTINGS by Joanna Nichols

Joanna Nichols' love of nature sparkles through her PAINTINGS of flowers,

fruit, landscapes and animals.  A Selma artist since the turn of the century,

 she is Artist of the Month at the Selma Art Guild where her works

 will be on display through this weekend. Nichols began drawing and painting

 as a young girl in Northumberland, England, and she later married

 and moved to the U.S. where she spent more than two decades

 as an art student and art guild leader in Stamford, Conn.

 In Selma, she says she has been intrigued by the old buildings,

 vehicles and "remnants of the past"

 which she enjoys capturing on canvas. 

Linking to ABC Wednesday

where the Letter of the Week is P.