A Place for Hope by Church Goin' Mule

Medium: Acrylic on wood
Dimensions: 14x16
 
About Church Goin' Mule:
Church Goin Mule has been drawing and painting her whole life. Although she was born in Richmond, Virginia, she got to the Mississippi Delta as fast as she could. She keeps her studio outside of Alligator, south of Clarksdale. 
 
The name Church Goin Mule reflects her ancestry - her grandfathers on both sides were Appalachian men, one plowed with mules and fought in the navy in World War Two, while her other grandfather was a Methodist minister. They worked, lived, fought, and loved hard so that decades later she had the opportunity both to grow up in a loving home and to be encouraged in her pursuit of the arts. 
 
She often gets her inspiration from his sermons and her own garden. She is an outsider artist and on the backs of the paintings you'll find what year it was painted, where, and a number. She began numbering her paintings in 2019 after her father asked her how many she had done that year.