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Background: Karin has been an avid photographer for 30 years, and has worked in stained glass since 1994. She received a BFA in painting from Wittenberg University in May 2007. She also sells art supplies through an eBay store, The Artist's Hand. Keith is vice president of quality at Heat-Treating Inc. and paints whenever he can. The Thues have been married for 32 years.

Quote: "Karin has always been the artistic one, doing crafts and beadwork. Then she had a chance to go back to school later in life. She got me a small watercolor kit and I fell in love with it. It made me want to start working with real paint and real paper. We've been painting together for the past four and a half years," Keith said.

Current show: The Thue's works are featured in a permanent gallery space at Town and Country Fine Arts Center at 300 E. Stroop Road, Kettering. Karin is showing her stained glass work and oil paintings, and Keith is presenting his watercolors, acrylics and oil paintings.

Karin's works include a beautiful stained-glass landscape with negative space, clear stained glass featuring an antique lid and oils "Rusted Shadows" and "Super Deluxe" from her "Old Car" series. Keith's art includes his acrylic/oil paintings "Midnight Waltz for Tipp City" and "Tango," which shows a couple melded into a Venice scene.

Karin enjoys focusing on fine details in her works, while Keith's art has a more fluid and dreamlike quality. One of their combined works, "Alaskan Collaboration," mixes Keith's acrylic landscape with Karin's mask detail of a totem pole. Keith prefers to think in terms of couples, the theme shows up again and again in his artwork.

"I think my one claim to fame is being happily married after 30-some years," Keith said. This sentiment is echoed in the couples Web site that showcases their work — www.happilymarried artists.com.