Storefronts covered in snow and Christmas decor. Chemist shop is in the center. Carriages and people in the street.

Deneille Spohn Moes was raised in the back country of Northern Michigan. Being the daughter of a minister, she has acquired a unique quality of simplicity and family values. Not only is she a primitive artist, but a wife and a mother of five children. She started painting at 16 when she bought a used oil set at a rummage sale for a dollar. Her first paintings were portraits of Jesus Christ done with toothpicks and her fingertips because art brushes were too expensive.