paintings that are beautiful. I don’t believe that you

paintings that are beautiful. I don’t believe that you have to be depressed to be a fine artist,” laughed Garon. “I want people to be enchanted when they see them as I feel when I paint them.”

Sadly, Garon’s idyllic location will be available toward the end of the year as he is planning to relocate to Florida. So if you’re one of his followers, it’s a good time to capture one of his paintings.

Washington’s Five Star, Five Diamond restaurant, The Inn at Little Washington has its own very special gift shop. While taking a break to browse through their many unique items, and perhaps pick up Chef Patrick O’Connell’s latest cookbook, there is also the opportunity to visit their gallery which for the tour is featuring the works of DeEtte Axelson, Gregory Britt, Nora Harrington, and Davette Leonard.

Artistry takes many forms and a visit to Chns’s Shop won’t disappoint lovers of all things beautiful.

Self-taught jewelry maker Christopher Goodine happened upon his unique “wave-link” jewelry style by what he calls a coincidence.

While living in Maine in 1970, Goodine was inspired by a friend to try his hand at making jewelry. So he traveled south to Boston’s jewelry district and found a tool called a raising hammer that he thought looked useful for shaping metals.

Goodine quickly went to work with his new tool, but noticed that the hammer would not flatten the metals as he wanted. Despite his best efforts, the hammer kept producing wave-like shapes.

“I started to work on it and the links wanted to wave,” Goodine said. “I didn’t want them to, but that’s what they did, so it all evolved from there.”

Goodine has made a living crafting a wide variety of intricate jewelry from that first basic shape. He says the wave behaves like a stitch, allowing for movement and myriad design possibilities.

“No one else is doing [wave-link jewelry], as far as I know,” he said. “It’s really a signature of mine.”