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in Sperryville is open. Ideally she would like to have the wall space and light of the Sperryville studio available in Washington. Business in Washington is more constant with only February and August being poor months. Sperryville is more weekend and seasonal,'she said. Still she finds rainy days “if the weather is not horrible” better than sunny days, when people are more inclined to do outdoor things.
“I’ve been pleased. I have a lot of local support,” she said. About 40 percent of her sales are to people in Rappahannock, Culpeper and Fauquier counties. About 10 percent of her sales are international, and about half go to people in Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
A major attraction at the Sperryville studio currently is the group of three six-by-four-foot paintings — of Washington, Sperryville and Warrenton — that was featured this winter in a show of the artist’s work at the state capitol in Richmond.
Most of the buildings in the towns appear in the three paintings, lined up along the streets. They have been turned so the viewer sees their architectural fronts even when the view would normally be their backs. Mrs. Richey calls the technique in these paintings “Primitive expressionism.”
She said traveling in Egypt and viewing art there “liberated” her to drop the Western “horizon perspective that said you are limited to looking from one point of view. The rest of the world never adopted that arts con
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