At 99, artist's skills and faith are undiminished

Published: 2005-07-19

WHEELING, Ill. (CNS) -- Retirement is not on 99-year-old Stanley Gorski's agenda. The artist-in-residence at Addolorata Villa in Wheeling still has much work to do. He is too busy creating religious artwork for the Villa's Sunday bulletin. Gorski calls it "payback." "The Lord has been good to me," said Gorski, who attends daily Mass. "He's put me on the earth for many years and I've had a good life. Now I want to pay back for all that I've received." He donates most of his artwork. He dates his love of drawing to his childhood, when he used to copy cartoons from the Chicago Tribune's Sunday comics section. He had no formal art training as a child other than what he says the nuns at St. Ann School taught him.

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