WILTON - Dawn Brust's cousin is a big fan of local artist Karin Vollkommer. She has almost all of her prints - so many that Brust said she didn't know what one to get her as a Christmas gift.

Then, she said, her father’s death and the grieving involved caused the artist, whose portfolio includes more than 70 celebrated images of Saratoga Springs, stopped her from work. Vollkommer ...