Artist Statement by Laurie N. Hatch: “As a painter, my objective is to suggest a scene to the viewer, supplying the shapes and color values of a scene while allowing conclusions and details to be drawn by the viewers’ imagination and memory. My hope is that the viewer will place themselves in the painting. If, through my efforts, I am able to spark memories of a place and time, or allow the viewer to imagine same, I have accomplished what I set out to do.” 

The Pickens County Museum is located at 307 Johnson Street in Pickens, at the corner of Johnson Street and Highway 178.