Watershed, by Carol Hendrickson

By Wild about Watercolor 2022

Watershed, by Carol Hendrickson, 2021, Watercolor painting
30" x 9", $150, Available, MBFA

This artist’s book opens up to hang vertically, my painting of the Whetstone Brook flowing down the pages just as the brook flows to the Connecticut River. I was inspired to paint this because of a quote in The History of Marlborough, Vermont by Ephraim Holland Newton (1787 – 1864): “Several valuable streams have their rise in town and find their way to the Connecticut River. It is said to be a remarkable fact that not a stream of water of sufficient size to fill a goose quill runs into town, visible on the top of the soil, but several streams take their rise, among which is a portion of the west branch of the West River, and also Whetstone brook, which flows into the Connecticut River at Brattleboro, and furnishes the water power to the many valuable mills and machines set in motion upon its banks.”