CAPTURING MOUNTAIN BROOK’S beauty Artist paints images along Jemison Trail

By LEAH INGRAM EAGLE

After becoming friends while attending Vanderbilt University, Erika Huddleston and Mountain Brook resident Mary Halsey Maddox’s careers diverged, but their friendship remained.

Maddox has lived in the city for 26 years and works as a physician at Children’s of Alabama, while also working remotely for Huddleston as her studio assistant. After Vanderbilt, Huddleston attended Parsons School of Design in New York, where she worked for six years, before obtaining her master’s of landscape architecture at the University of

Texas at Austin.

Huddleston recently spent several weeks in Mountain Brook working on paintings of Jemison Trail, after Maddox invited her to pay a visit to the city to paint the wooded area along Shades Creek.

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