Longtime educator and artist Ken Spiering battles health issues to bring new paintings to Barrister Winery exhibition

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Ken Spiering with recent pantings in his studio.

Retirement is supposed to be about one’s “golden years.” Less work to make a living and more time to make life worth living. For some that’s traveling, family time, sleeping in. For artist and retired educator Ken Spiering, retirement meant returning to painting, not as a hobby but as a labor of love.

Spiering has been painting, drawing and working two-dimensionally since graduating from Gonzaga University in 1972, yet he is better known for his public works, specifically monumental

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