TEXARKANA MAGAZINE
addition to the various collected pieces, a lot of the art is personalized. In the living room, a series of watercolor portraits of the owners’ children hang near the fireplace; this set was commissioned by former Pleasant Grove exchange student and now professional artist Alla Bartoshchuk. The master bedroom displays two pieces that were made as a collaboration between the family and local artist Nicole Brisco. “The boys each did one of those. I picked out some paint colors and let them just go to town,” she explained. “Then Nicole came back, toned it down, and added her signature look.” Also commissioned by Brisco is a large mixed-media piece at the back entrance. At first glance, the work looks like simple abstract art, but upon closer inspection, significant dates can be found discreetly worked into the piece so as not to distract but to enhance. “Those are dates that were important to our family— when my in-laws were married, when my husband was born, when I was born, when my parents were married, and other dates like that,” she said.
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