When a Nova Scotia woman crocheted a Maud Lewis painting onto a sweater, she didn’t expect it to go viral on social media — or to get a message from one of the famed painter’s living relatives.
“I had a really, really nice conversation with Maud Lewis’s great-granddaughter,” said Grace Tompkins, who is from Truro, N.S., and crochets as a hobby.
“She told me like, oh, this painting was actually her grandmother’s favourite … this exact version with the darker green background and the three cats,” Tompkins told The Current’s Matt Galloway, referring to Lewis’s 1955 painting, titled Three Black Cats. Cats were a regular feature
