After her career in movies, Salli spent eight years living and traveling in Europe. She lived in a vicarage in England, a windmill in Holland, and a canal house in Amsterdam. Salli studied painting in a little village outside of Amsterdam, Laren, which was known as a “painter’s village.” There, M.C. Escher lived in a home for retired artists and Piet Mondriaan lived in the next village during the 1920’s. Later she studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. It was in the countryside, that Salli fell in love with the Dutch light, seen...more
