From the Heart: Thought in Color

Valerie Weberpal studied art at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, receiving a BFA in graphic design. She worked as a graphic designer until she started her family. While raising her 3 children, she experimented with many different mediums, including textile, clays, pencils, paint, paper mache, and others. She has taught drawing to local groups as well. As her children grew up and became independent she was able to venture out and do art shows to show and sell her work. She has been actively selling for about 15 years. This exhibition is a selection of her paintings and drawings. Much of her work is done in a primitive, folk art style, and is always loaded with color. She continues to experiment with her style and mediums.

She works in her studio named The Crib, which is on the family's working farm in Sycamore,  and is an early 1900s corn crib that her husband refurbished in 2015. She hosts her own studio shows a few times a year, and the public is always welcome to visit at those times, and can visit by appointment as well.

You can find her on Facebook:
Www.facebook.com/harvestmoondesigns 
Www.facebook.com/thecribinsycamore 

Instagram and Etsy: ValerieHarvestMoon

And her blog: Valerieharvestmoon.blogspot.com