Myrna Leigh Cohn

I am a visual artist, an oil painter, to be exact. I live in a town called Baileys Harbor in Door County in the state of Wisconsin. The population of this county is around 29,000 people. Baileys Harbor has approximately 1,000  full-time residents.  I emphasize “full-time” because Door County is a popular vacation and tourist [...]

I’ve been working on a painting which I have carried in my mind for many moons.  It’s a view of the marsh at high-tide at Kiawah, S.C.  I’ve painted the marshes before, mostly in an abstracted landscape form; but this time, I wanted to try realism, to a point. I decided to use a 24″x48″ [...]

When I take myself to the place in the world where I am most me, most centered, most awakened, it is always along a shore, a wide-expanse of water going on forever with an open, ever changing sky as partner. It is there I come to be. Whenever I desire, I can be there –in [...]