The Cooking Lesson

Who doesn't remember sitting in Grandma's kitchen licking icing off a spoon and surrounded by the charm of the country kitchen and the aroma of freshly baked cookies?

In this composition one finds portraits of the artist, Kathryn Rutherford, at age three and age eight surrounded by family ancestors of herself and her cousin, who is Curator of the John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area Museum, in Ontario, Canada, which is the setting of this charming and heartwarming painting.