In the poetry collection Verse-A-Tell-It, about love, self-love, and life experiences, author Adrian Ray Evans also painted the art illustrated in the book.

Evans was born in a farmhouse in Western Kentucky during the Great Depression. A recovering alcoholic since December 1983, he is retired from his own house painting business, Adrian Custom House Painters of Orlando, Florida, where he lived and worked for forty years.

After retirement, he and his wife returned to his hometown of Owensboro, Kentucky in 2012, to be near ailing family members and to spend the remaining years of their...