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Folk artist Don Cochran's Art Gallery
Paintings, sculptured high relief murals, backdrops, folk art, fine art, landscapes, waterfalls, wall murals on canvas and other paintings by Georgia's Folk and Master Scenic Artist Don Cochran for church, business and home.
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The following couple of years after the accident were trying times. I only preached a few more times and the last sermon was the funeral of my twin brother Ron, and then I walked away. My business partner and I was scheduled to have our grand opening for our new catering business that week of the accident but I didn't make it. Later, I went back to work for a while, but my heart just wasn't in it, and I turned the business over to my partner and walked away. We will come back to this time in my life a little later and share with you what God showed me in this other place.
In 1981, Linda and the kids and I moved to the mountains in North Georgia. I started working on the talents that God gave me when I was just a boy, changed my title from Rev. Don to Artist Don and started painting. It was like an old story I heard about a boy out in the field plowing. He looked up in the sky and the clouds had formed a big G.P. He went back to the house and told his daddy that God had given him a sign in the clouds to "Go Preach". His daddy told him that G.P. was not to go preach, but was to go plow. My G.P. was Go Paint.
I didn't have any money problems, because I didn't have any money. I would share a piece of work here and there but my goal was to work in the movies as a scenic artist.
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