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BY SARAH FAY CAMPBELL sarah@newnan.com
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ohn Stevens loved art as a child and teenager and had hoped to pursue a career as a commercial artist. But as a teen, his father, a food scientist, said him down for a talk. "He said, ‘Son, if you are an artist you may not be able to put food on the table. But as a food scientist you can always put food on the table,’” Stevens recalled. So Stevens took his father's advice, put away his paints and brushes, and pursued a career in food science. It was a very successful one, and he retired as vice president of research and development for a major company.
During all those years, Stevens never picked up painting again. Not until retirement, when his wife, Cheree, convinced him to take it up once more. He had stopped painting years before he met her, but she had seen a painting he did as a youngster that his grandmother had framed. "It was a still life, and it was ugly," Stevens said. He had actually torn it up, but his grandmother had patched it, framed it and hung it in her home. His wife didn't think it was ugly either. "She asked, ‘Why don't you get into painting? You've got time,’" he
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