COVER UPDATE: Love on Display

Taking art on the road is a lot tougher than it seems.

Leoma Lovegrove, one of the Gulf Coast's most prolific artists whose paintings fetch $20,000 or more, says the multi-sensory productions she recently conceived are more demanding than she expected.

This year, Lovegrove spent $35,000 on a music-and-light show that features her painting on stage at her studio in Matlacha. The small town (pronounced matt-luh-shay) is located on a sliver of land that connects Pine Island with Cape Coral near Fort Myers.