HIGH PROFILE: Culture shock, language barrier drove artist Virmarie Suria DePoyster

“I had Christian comic books that I would read and everything was church-based. I was very sheltered, and so I spoke to my imaginary friends and I doodled and I entertained myself, and I think that those things carry over into what I do today because I’m able to spend lots of time alone and just keep myself busy.” - Virmarie DePoyster
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Cary Jenkins)
“I had Christian comic books that I would read and everything was church-based. I was very sheltered, and so I spoke to my imaginary friends and I doodled and I entertained myself, and I think that those things carry over into what I do today because I’m able to spend lots of time alone and just keep myself busy.” - Virmarie DePoyster (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Cary Jenkins)


Natural light pours into Virmarie DePoyster's North Little Rock corner studio, illuminating artwork, trays of colorful pastels, cups of brushes and tubes and bottles of paint.

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