Lorraine Benini Shares Turkey Salad

While it appears Lorraine is holding me close for a photo, really she was just pulling me from the table because the turkey salad was soooooo delicious! I had a rumbling in my tumbling for more turkey salad.

Here I'm sitting in the belly of a Long Horn. This sculpture was created by Bettye Hamblin Turner, a Texas sculptor who is very comfortable welding and grinding and cutting metal, bending it to her will. Mike and Paul and Stephen have one of her sculptures, a philly horse named Bailey.



















Here I'm posing of a photo with Stephen in front of Bettye's longhorn.



















What do you think? Too much purple? This paining is one of Benini's geometric works form the 1990's. He paints on canvas, the cuts the painting out and mounts it over aluminum so that it stands away from the wall. His work is very complicated, he uses acrylic paints which dry very quickly, so it takes many layers of paint to achieve the shading he accomplishes on the paintings which look like they have been airbrushed.


























As you can see, the Beninis are very kid-friendly - be sure to stop by when you visit Texas.