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This was painted directly on a smooth 8 x 10 inch finely sanded board from a professional artist supply house. I think there are enough layers so that the work will likely have decent archival properties. Because I am unsure of I am asking a small price. The choice of frame could make this very dramatic and personal. I'd use white for the romantic spirits and maybe a large dark frame for focus depending upon your interior decor.

Betty Pieper received her first set of oils at the age of ten and has been painting ever since. Her work has been selected by prominent jurors for prestigious regional and national exhibitions and is owned by people throughout the country. Before the age of five, Betty had lived on Dean Street in Brooklyn, on Forsythe Street in Manhattan, on an estate in Westchester county, and with her grandparents in rural New York. She watched her father build their house nearby only to sell it and announce a move to California. In San Bernardino she lived in a trailer park and later in a rural farmhouse without running water, then in an historic mansion with an Indian cellar. How did this itinerant childhood influence her art? "I learned...