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Artist Marla Shega of Marla’s Palette will be featured at an “Artist In Residence” day at The Strawflower Shop, 210 W. State St., Geneva. It is part of the shop’s Holiday Open House from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7.

Shega will share her “Holidays in Chicago” framed prints, featuring the Art Institute lion, the Marshall Field clock, The Chicago Theatre and Old Water Tower.

  A Michigan Avenue landmark is the newest of Marla Shega’s works. SUBMITTED PHOTO

For more of her artwork, visit www.marlaspalette.com.

Fluid energy sparks the beautifully rendered paintings of Gordon France of La Grange. He originally trained at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago for a successful career in the ad agency business, but says it wasn’t until a few years before his retirement in 2000 that he enrolled in adult night classes at The Art Institute and picked up a paintbrush.

He now has a new full-time occupation that finds him capturing images from Chicago to East Coast seascapes and embarking on overseas painting workshops he shares with his wife, Jacqueline, a fellow artist.

 La Grange artist Gordon France works out of his home studio. STAFF PHOTOS BY BILL ACKERMAN