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3ince. The Bermans had a residence in Front Royal which they bought in 1972 and "found” Rappahannock in 1980. They bought their home at Rock Mills and have spent their time here mostly on weekends but are now spending about half the week here.
After Berman was married, with her husband’s support, she took art classes again and began painting. She took classes at A.S. Hoffman in Washington, D.C. and painted “on a pretty regular basis.”
But, the Bermans had a big family — six kids — and they kept her busy. She kept painting however until she went to work for her husband in 1982 as his office manager. From then until 1992 she ran his office and had very little time for painting. She has in the past exhibited her paintings in offices around the Washington, D.C. area and at the Art Bam there.
A couple of years ago she got back into her work and took classes here in the county with well known county artists Ned Bittinger, Steve Kenny, Mike Francis and Richard Thorpe, of Luray.
“I always learn something new from every teacher,” she said. Her works are a mixture of Van Gogh-like paintings and some more reminiscent of Renoir or the French Impressionists.
She works primarily in oils and prefers landscapes and people or landscapes with people. “I do a lot of under painting and glazing,” she said, “like the old masters did. That is what I like about Steve Kenny’s work. His paintings have that quality.
“I build up a lot of layers and work into the painting. Some are more ‘finished’ than others.”
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