U.S. Army veteran Clark Cotner of Birch Bay, Wash., had just taught himself to paint when friends talked him into entering one of his pictures at the 2013 Northwest Washington Fair. He ended up winning the Best of Division grand prize!
In this video, Cotner explains what showing at the fair means to him and how painting helps him heal from injuries suffered during his service. We talked to him in the old Expo Building where Cotner was doing a painting demonstration at the fair in 2013.
At that time, Clark Cotner said that, with his painting teacher’s encouragement, he’d enrolled in art school. You never know where entering and showing your work at the fair will take you!