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This painting by Sheri Jo Posselt is a portrait of her father, Clarence Noffke, better known as Pa. He was 80 years old in this image and has a swollen elbow from gout. The hammer in his grasp was there most of his life. He was a carpenter, but could be seen cracking Hickory nuts on a block as on the ground by the vegetables at his feet. He gave everyone brown bags of his harvest every year. The cane pole propped on the shore with the chair has a red and white bobber floating in the waters of Lake Poygan. He loved to fish and shared his catch with many who crossed the threshold into his home.

Sheri Jo Posselt is the owner of Sincere Harmony an art and design business, studio and gallery she started in 1998. Sincere Harmony is more just business. It is built from a fairytale and grounded in reality stronger than the roots of a healthy old Oak tree. Sheri Jo founded the recipe for creation and it has three main ingredients,#1.Make #2. Be #3 Leave". and it is the recipe to bring out the best inside us all. The mixing directions for the baking are still to come. The heart of Sincere Harmony is growing by leaps and bounds and is about to explode into the world as the story not yet told. The tale from inside the soul of an artist moved by love, nearly destroyed by emotions. The storm within. Most of us know it, many...