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Painter brings great outdoors to life inside local bar and grill Marcy Yerkes diligently paints spring themes on an Adirondack chair while she shares her experience in painting the Willow’s Mural among others. The Willow’s mural evolved into the picturesque New Hampshire landscape with the input of several options. The former Fancy, which inhabited the now Willow’s Restaurant was quite different thematically in the interior design. The space has gone through much change and improvement. Yerkes was able to transform wall space that was all white into a mural with depth and character. Initially, Michael Moore, owner of the Willow’s restaurant wanted a swamp theme with large willow trees and birds from the North and South. “He wanted it to be really classy with murals all downstairs,” said Yerkes. As the mural was being painted the emphasis pointed more towards animals for New Hampshire. “A lot of people wanted me to paint a moose because that is New Hampshire... then cattle, so we got into the whole animal theme,” said Yerkes Yerkes was able to blend the large ceiling piping into vast blue sky. “I thought of a sky to prevent the ceiling from looking too high…and the piping was black so I thought if I lowered the horizon-line then the piping could be sky blue,” explained Yerkes. Interestingly, Yerkes and Moore grew up on the same island off the coast of South Carolina, Hilton Head. They met here in New Hampshire and recognized one another immediately. Since then, Moore hired Yerkes to paint murals at two of his establishments, initially at M&J’s Restaurant in Belmont and now The Willow’s. There have been many other mural projects completely by Yerkes around the area. “I have done a lot for the music festival, they have had two showcase houses to raise money, one at the Prescott Home and one at the Red Hill Inn,” said Yerkes. Her projects include faux finishes, fresco, illustration, and fine art detail. Her murals can be found all over. In Gilford, Yerkes has completed pieces of many private homes, including some of Governor’s Island and along Labonte Farm Road. She has also painted homes in Belmont, Meredith, Wolfeboro, and New Hampton. With focus in illustration, Yerkes studied under Allan Mactaggart, the current art director at Lander University, then continued on to study at Parsons in New York City. There she completed was she calls her “finishing courses” and went on to pursue various careers in painting. More information about Marcy Yerkes work can be found on her website: www.southernaccentdesigns.com. | |||||||||
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