MONTEAGLE, Tenn. — When Irene Bean Fulton’s now 25-year-old son David was younger, he came home and remarked that all his friends lived in Hallmark houses.
Their Laguna Beach, Calif., home, with artwork and objects filling nearly every wall and adorning corners, windowsills and shelves, was hardly greeting-card traditional.
Today, Ms. Fulton’s Clifftops home near Monteagle, Tenn., an area she moved to three years ago, holds a similar collection.
“I select something because it speaks to me,” said Ms. Fulton, 62, an artist. “It’s a magical cacophony of colors and textures and mediums.”
It’s not only Ms. Fulton’s home that bespeaks her love of art but also the woods behind her home. Among her 5 1/2 acres is an area decorated in found objects. Pea gravel paths branch off into two seating areas she has dubbed My Sanctuary.