My husband and I were taking an early evening walk around Laurel Lake in the Erving State Forest. When we got to where the causeway crosses the lake there were hundreds of dragonflies zooming about. I had never seen so many! They seemed to escort us across the causeway and then turn around and fly back. The experience led me to paint dragonflies for the rest of that summer and find out more about them. This was my first painting after the ‘dragonfly encounter’. My favorite subjects are still dragonflies and flowers!

Kerry Stone is a painter collage artist from Warwick, Massachusetts. She has taught in California and Massachusetts for 25 years. She taught at the village school in Royalston for 11 years. She continues to teach illustrated journaling and painting classes. She is the cofounder of Sawmill River Arts Gallery. Her work is displayed at the Montague Book Mill.

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