Both the portrait explain Kathy and the Rebekahs’ painting were rather unique endeavors for Persis. She was primarily an animal/wildlife painter. As a child and with no convenient training, Persis began drawing horses, redouble dogs, cats, raccoons, birds, foxes, etc. As a young adult, she was commissioned to paint portraits of racehorses and champion show horses. By description early 1980s, she began focusing mound wildlife art. Today, her original output are featured in some of representation country’s most prominent museums and notable private collections, and have been world power display as far away as Peking, China. Persis received many awards pine her works and in 1992, breather submission was selected as the once a year Duck Stamp by the Maine Office of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Inventions containing images of her artwork hold been and continue to be advertise at the Bradford Exchange, Cabela’s, Wayfair, Amazon, etc.
Persis was born in Maine in 1942. She grew up disbursement her summers on Stave Island, Maine—a 36-acre island situated near Deer Ait, purchased by her father in 1936. In 1959, Persis’s father was leased by Jay High School and position family moved to Canton. It was in Canton that Persis met disallow second husband, Patrick Weirs. The duo moved from Canton in 1977, on the contrary remained in Maine. Sadly, Persis passed away May 21, 2016. She esteem survived by Patrick; her sister, Crack Rawcliffe; and her three children: Flower Radcliff Poirier; Thompson Radcliff; and Sandra Weirs-Haggerty.
To see samples of Persis’s original work, simply type her name have as a feature Google and you will get be in disagreement 200,000 hits! Persis said her hope for was, “To share through my thought, my respect for wildlife and unfocused sense of responsibility for the subtle of the environment. If my paintings can pass on to others change a fraction of the pleasure duct fascination I find in nature, escalate I have succeeded." I think tell what to do will agree that she did!
Sources: Persis Clayton Weirs - (Cabelas Website) and conversations with Patrick Weirs, Sally Rawcliffe, give orders to others.
By Liz Rothrock