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Helen Kilby’s home could double as an arts and crafts
Her oil paintings brighten the living room of the stone house that nestles in the rolling hills between Washington and Sperryville.
A white alabaster duck, her first sculpture, graces the coffee table in front of a picture window. A niche outside the front door waits for a second piece, a prancing unicorn that Helen first saw in a dream and later . sculpted out of a soap-stone slab brough from the Kilby’s old home in Sperryville.
The mantel over the fireplace holds pottery vases, molded from clay Helen dug on the farm. Her delicate chip carving decorates lids of wooden what-not boxes. Tole painted trays of colorful flowers, more of Helen’s artistry, hang in the kitchen. Visitors prop their feet up on a stool that she recaned.
Ceramics with the quality of fine old porcelain creations from Helen’s home kiln, rest on shelves and bookcases. Other examples of her wide range of talents—copper enameling, cloisonne, docoupage and woodworking—adorn dressers and table tops.
Crafts always have been an important part of Helen’s life. Several years before her marriage in 1943 to Lucio Kilby whoth she met while
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