Will Reed

The Painted Lady Will Reed

An exciting journey by a newly divorced, middle aged man. A well known painter moves from the woods of Oregon after a painful divorce, back to his native Los Angeles to start anew in Venice, California. A Billionaire patron latches onto him, and his talents and sends him all over the world painting scenes he only had seen and detailed in his mind. The daughter heiress wants him and he escapes to Europe to paint while directing a team to assemble and build a world class museum of art in Santa Monica, California. His patron is kidnapped or disappears and he is left with 1 Billion Dollars to spend on his Shubert Museum and it's adjoining graduate school of art and various other creative entities under the title Artopia. The main character meets his Sophie in France while painting and they start a very unusual relationship. It causes all who read it to question just how important our words are and how foolish we all have been at thinking we know what Love is. Thought provoking, loved by artists of all ilk's, and romance finally abounds. In the end it's tragic and painful, but a door opens and those who enter have a fresh new life. Inspirational.