A Life of Pain Is Reframed, Thanks to a Paint Brush and a Heritage
New Haven Register › February 01, 2011
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Don Rains has taken a 3,000-mile journey across the country, enduring a personal landscape of pain and trauma, a trip that carried him from the drug-infested streets of San Francisco to the beautiful vistas of Stony Creek. He has come out the other side, to a home studio in that Branford shoreline community and now has an exhibit of his artwork in an upscale restaurant in downtown New Haven.
If you go see Rains' paintings at Chow, you will likely be struck by the brooding, penetrating eyes of his subjects, especially those in his self-portrait.See the full content of this document
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A Life of Pain Is Reframed, Thanks to a Paint Brush and a Heritage
And you will see two paintings of a man named Hector. In one of these, he has his arms around a young boy (Rains); in the other, Hector is tearing the boy away from his mother.
That's the man who murdered R...See the full content of this document
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