Laura BUsh.Photo: NBCUniversal
Color her surprised!
“He’s really gotten good,” the former first lady, 74, told Clarkson, 39, about President Bush’s artwork. “I’m shocked.”
Mrs. Bush said the former president, 74, “was not interested in art at all” during his time at the White House, although she said the building did have a “major collection of American art.”
“He never really looked at it,” Mrs. Bush said. “So, I was very surprised when he took up painting, but he’s gotten to be really good.”
The former first lady appeared Tuesday afternoon onTheKelly Clarksonshow to talk about the family’s time in the White House and promote new exhibits at the George Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas — including her husband’s artwork.
The former presidenttold PEOPLElast month that his early painting of Mrs. Bush didn’t go so well. “The Laura portrait was a bust. It was destroyed,” he said.
George W. Bush.Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images
On Tuesday, Mrs. Bush explained that she decided to bite her tongue while her husband was learning his new craft.
Clarkson asked the former first lady if she encouraged her husband’s work or “if it was just like the speeches and you just laid low?”
“I laid low,” Mrs. Bush told Clarkson.
Bush told PEOPLE last month that he’s painted thousands of pieces in recent years — some of his family members, the family’s pets, portions of their home and miscellaneous items like sliced cake, among other subjects.
But he takes the most pride in his work on immigrants, which along with being collected in his book, is displayed at the Bush Center.
source: people.com
