Watercolor artist Steve Shelton of Columbia, Mo., joins Moses as a featured artist at the Autumn Country Folk Art Festival. Shelton will present his interpretation of the work of two well-known Early American watercolor artists. Shelton is planning to show a portrait and a landscape. The paintings will be exhibited at the Country Folk Art Festival placed side-by-side with the originals in a showcase presentation that serves as a tribute to Early American watercolor art.

Totally self-taught, the thirtysomething Shelton began creating simple wooden Santa Claus figures and producing primitive paintings for craft shows when he was a child. He later switched to more subtle watercolors.