For New Port Richey Artist, Spending Locally is Shopping With Love
Sherry Downing, owner of Dot's Dish Garden, displays her work at fairs and festivals in the region.
Sherry Downing, owner of Dot's Dish Garden, has endured her fair share of unfavorable experiences, from being laid off from her corporate position 12 years ago to losing her husband to cancer in March of this year. However, art has kept her going. When Downing, of New Port Richey, was laid off, she explained that she wasn't sure what happened but that she believes "an artist somewhere died, and their soul took over my body." Downing said her artistic ability was non-existent in years past. She said that even her husband, an artist and art teacher for more than 16 years, deemed her unteachable. But one day after being laid off, something remarkable happened. "Suddenly, I was good," Downing explained. Originally calling her work Dots on …
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