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CityViewNC .com | 29 Professional DJ Event Lighting Photo Booths Audio/Visual Event Rentals Dance Floors Pipe & Drape Pipe & Drape & Much More! The Award Winning Special Event Production Company C hristel Haworth had been admiring the painting for quite some time. It featured sailboats and was hanging at the end of a hallway in the home of her friend Jeanne Player. She was amazed when she learned the name of the artist who'd done the painting: Jeanne Player. "Jeanne," she said to her friend of some 16 years. "You need to do something with this. You need to put it out there and share your talent with the world." Player has loved to paint for as long as she can remember. She put that love mostly on hold through the years, first to earn a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then to raise a family in Fayetteville. But Haworth's encouragement has helped her talent take off and has led to more paintings, a website, some sales, some rave reviews and, most recently, to Player submitting one of her paintings for consideration for "Sea Of Change," a Mid- Atlantic regional exhibition featuring artists from South Carolina to Pennsylvania. She was elated to learn her painting "Aqua" was among those chosen. e exhibit was on display in the Virginia Beach Art Center in September. "I love water, and I love open spaces," Player said. "Aqua shows the beauty, peace and expanse of a wide-open beach." e two friends met the way many of us meet our best girlfriends – their children were in preschool together. at St. John's Episcopal Church. Now those boys range in age from a high school sophomore to college juniors. ough Haworth had been to the Players' home many times, she had been too busy chasing youngsters to notice very much about the artwork. "Once your children grow up, your eyes see different things," Haworth said. In Player's art, there are soothing watery landscapes to see, along with bright flowers and colorful landscapes. "You don't buy art just to buy art," Haworth said. "I think art has to make you feel good. It should make you happy. Jeanne's art does that." Cardinal Heart and Vascular, PLLC • Board certified physician • Heart disease, leg pain due to poor circulation, varicose veins, obesity, erectile dysfunction and allergy clinic • Testing done in the same office • All insurances accepted • Same week appointments • Friendly staff Plan for a Healthy Lifestyle Suriya Jayawardena MD. FACC. FSCAI 4534 Raeford Road Fayetteville NC 28304 Tel: 910.229.2053 Fax: 919.718.0280 Hours of Operation: 8 am - 5 pm Monday - Friday True Friends Inspire

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