by Lisa Schauer
Artist Payton Brown, daughter of Berkeley Springs residents Mary and Greg Brown, won first place recently in the 16th annual Best of West Virginia open juried art exhibition in the fine arts gallery at Tamarack Marketplace in Beckley.
Tamarack Marketplace displays and sells fine arts and crafts from artists around West Virginia.
Brown’s winning entry, titled Always, Always Faithful Always There for You, is an oil painting of a Waffle House restaurant.
