Shirley Timmreck says, "As I waited for my flight recently at Reno Airport I realized something about today's old ladies. They all wear pants! None were in skirts, none really dressed up like the old ladies I paint. My 'Old Girls' are from long ago, and not only the present younger generations, but future generations will probably miss them altogether.
When my daughter Kim was very young  would take her downtown in New Orleans to shop. She was attracted to the little old ladies we saw. Always all dressed up, carrying big purses and usually wearing little veiled hats, some topped with bows or flowers, we found them in department stores, museums, restaurants, and especially church.

I treasure these memories in my painting series of the 'Old Girls,' these very proper ladies, who lived still under Victorian influence of their own mother and aunts. I believe the appeal of these paintings is that they evoke in others the same kind of memories of a vanishing breed."

Shirley a longtime resident of Homer, Alaska, paints in oils, acrylics, water colors, monotype, inks and collage. She studied art at Newcomb College and subsequently taught art for many years in New Orleans.