Toward the end of the life of her mother, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, Susanne Dotson began painting scenes of flowers, especially the roses her mother loved.
The Columbus artist, who began the homage to her mother at the beginning of 2020, said the acrylic paintings “just started pouring out of me.” On Dec. 20, at the age of 96, Harriet Keller Wise also a painter died in her home in LaGrange, Ohio, in the northeastern part of the state.
Dotson’s colorful floral series is presented in the Short North’s Sarah Gormley Gallery. The exhibit, which also can be seen on the gallery website, is titled “Can You Tell Me Who I Am,” one of the questions Dotson’s mother would ask in her final years.