Love Prints

Most of my paintings are created using the same process: an idea, locating models, photo shoot, and so on. None of that was true for Love Prints. It wasn’t my story.

The photo I used for the painting was a snapshot offered to me from a friend. Her daughter Ashley and friend Bennett were sharing their first kiss as three-year-olds. Their parents had met in a Lamaze class, and the two were born ten days apart. As their friendship continues through triumphs and tragedies of career moves and relocations to other cities, every reunion seems like a time warp in which the past melts away like their ice cream cones.

Although I felt I knew Bennett, we’d never met. However, something even better happened when our daughter Maggie was at a camp counselor’s meeting in North Georgia. The hostess asked all the young leaders to introduce themselves, and after Maggie’s turn, inquired if her mother was a painter. The woman, Maggie learned, was the mom of Bennett, a fellow counselor and the mysterious toddler boy in my painting with her friend Ashley.

Years later, when I was publishing Little Lessons of Faith, a book of paintings and meaningful messages, I asked Bennett’s father Kerry to write the story behind the snapshot of the children. He titled it, “A Little Lesson in Friendship."

Kathryn Fincher creates meaningful artwork that moves the soul. She is renowned for her paintings of children in the style of Norman Rockwell. Classically trained, her attention to detail and lighting are the source for many international awards and collections. Kathy’s paintings of children were deemed a national treasure when she received a Grammy Award for the Visual Arts by the Save the Arts Foundation.  Her painting, The Dream Keepers, was introduced in the Oval Office and later inducted into the permanent collection of the Presidential Library of G.W. Bush. Based on the painting, Fincher designed The Dream Keepers 911 Memorial, the largest children’s memorial featuring seven children restoring the American Dream by shaping the flag with their handprints.

Her most notable work to date is an 8’ bronze monument of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr; I’ve Been to the Mountaintop. Commissioned for Peace Park in Atlanta, Georgia by the National Monuments Foundation.  The grand scale work was unveiled in 2023 as the only monument of MLK talking to God.

Fincher’s hope is that the stories in her artwork will turn the viewer to their own children and realize they are gifts from above. Havenlight is proud to release from the personal archives of Kathryn Andrews Fincher, the spirit of childhood through one of America’s favorite children’s painters.

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