The Contessa's Easel

"I know you never knew your grandfather, but now you can touch what his hands touched and create beauty.... Be like him, dearest Orla; recognize, make, and be beauty in an often ugly world." These words were to have a profound effect upon Orla.

The acclaimed Orla Paints Quartet continues!

Orla Castleberry returns to her New Orleans home after a year as artist-in-residence at Manhattan's New York University. Her topical exhibit "Portraits of AIDS" has earned world-wide praise and notoriety for...