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By Mary Beth Martin
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“When you find your passion, you can find a way to do it,” said Tanya Richey, and she admits painting is an obsession for her. She delivered her $24,000 painting of Washington, Va. to a Maryland home last week. The four by six-foot painting went over an eight-foot mantle and fit right into the room with its 20-foot ceiling. A New York designer is hoping to have the home displayed in Architectural Digest Magazine.
“It gives me a sense. of accomplishment, but being an artist is a tough way to make a living if there is no other income coming in,” said Richey.
Her husband, Barney, was the breadwinner and always her personal cheerleader. When he died in August 1996 and she said she considered giving up her painting career and looking for a “real” job using her accounting background. Fortunately, she didn’t and her business experience helps her manage the financial side of her successful art career.
She said she reads biographies to understand other people and she lives by the philosophy of Johann von Goethe whom she quotes, “Boldness has a genius of its own, so begin it.” People intellectualize too much by worrying “what if...” and they don’t do anything. Nothing will happen Unless they try, she said.
Richey, 50, said she began painting at her home in Orlean when her daughter, April, entered kindergarten in the late 1970s. She said she realized she couldn’t do everything,
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