our art: AUBREY CAYLOR
Area painter recalls early lessons in love and art and
BY MEL W RHODES
enjoys her creative individuality
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s a little girl she learned at her grandmoth-
er’s elbow, watching as she moved aque-
ous colors across white textured paper. It was
marvelous to see and inspiring beyond words,
and she remembers vividly changing out the
water for her “Mamaw.” Aubrey Caylor’s
grandmother, Irene Davis, now 89 and living
in Houston, then a member of the National
Watercolor Society, widened her granddaugh-
ter’s artistic horizons, cultivated the young
girl’s affinity for hue, shade, tint and tone.
“She taught art classes, traveling all over
the United States,” Aubrey recalled. “And I
would go with her to shows and galleries. So
my grandmother is who really got me inter-
ested in art.”
Aubrey, 44, probably received a double
dose of the art gene — her late grandfather
“Flamingo”