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Have You Herd?
Written By: Donna Rhodes | Issue: 2016/03 - March
With an accomplished photographer’s eye and an understanding of light and chiaroscuro, Daphne Lisenby had an excellent shot
at painting.
So three years ago she and her husband, both successful professional photographers in Atlanta, traded in their metro life for a bucolic one and moved to their Wolffork Valley Farm in Rabun Gap, Georgia. Their lovely farmstead is home to sheep, chickens, a guard dog, a vegetable garden, the Lisenbys, and a host of family and friends who escape the rush of the city to sample the sweet life of the rural countryside.
Daphne doesn’t look back, but she hasn’t given up photography either. In fact, depending on the weather and time of year, a good day starts with a photo shoot, only these portraits are of cows, goats, sheep, and local scenics.
Winter birthings blessed the Lisenbys with adorable lambs, already documented in over 2,000 photographs. The lambs alone will keep Daphne’s brush in high gear for months to come.
Daphne says, “I adore the faces of my animals. They have a lot of personality. I love God’s creations and I enjoy
painting them.”
When Daphne is not doing volunteer work for the Child Evangelism Fellowship of Georgia, she is in her studio, painting from her photos or out in the countryside doing plein air painting of a homestead, a chapel, or a landscape. She is working on a commission for a commercial builder’s office of the Wolffork Valley. She welcomes commissions of rural scenes, barns and buildings, children, family farm animals, and family members. Her website is daphnelisenby.com.
See Daphne’s delightfully quirky, colorful creations at Smitten’s Third Thursday, 5:00 P.M – until, March 17, at 468 Main Street in downtown Highlands. Call (828) 526-9300 for March opening/closing hours, or email [email protected].
