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Some speculate that traditional English Pubs are fast dwindling into nonexistence. Thousands fell after the smoking ban in 2006, and Britons themselves may be trending toward a more continental drinking choice of wine and trendy gourmet food renderings. The vanishing pub means, by common consent, the loss of the beating heart of a community, in town or countryside. A pub can become a sort of encapsulation of place, containing grainy photographs, dog-eared posters for last year’s fete, its snoozing cats, its prettiest girls behind the bar, and its strangest characters in front of it. No matter what the season, they are prized for a sense of history in the layers of paper, clutter and paint. What matters is the atmosphere, that indefinable thing that no one can put a finger on.

Paraphrased from: “Time, Gentlemen” The Economist December 16, 2010

Cheri Randolph was awarded a degree in Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans with a concentration in the study of Art History. She credits printmaker, Calvin Harlan , a UNO professor, as being quite influential in her composition techniques as well as painter, Ida Kohlmeyer with a better understanding of color. Pictorialism would best describe her current work, stylistically. Cheri has expressed her artistic talents in a variety of ways including; wheel-thrown pottery, quilting, vintage clothing restoration, interior decorative painting and photography. She is a resident of both the Houston Heights and historic New Orleans Uptown. A favorite quote is, "The bird of time has but a little way to flutter - and the bird is on the...