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kid, we would go out and play a few holes now and then and I took lessons from Pebble Beach Head Pro Art Bell. These days, Curtis and I play when we go on vacation." Cost has a natural feel for depicting the unique contours of the golf landscape. "I keep the paint thin so the light comes through," she explains. "Too much paint makes the image look flat, not three-dimensional. That's the challenge of a golf scene." Viewing her paintings, one can almost smell the ocean, can see the suggestion of the dirt under the green of the grass. Her work caught the eye of Pebble Beach resident and CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz. "I had seen her work at Images," Nantz says, "and my wife Courtney and I hired Shelley to paint a tile mural for our home." In 2011, the couple created the Nantz National Alzheimer Center (NNAC) at Houston Methodist Hospital (top) "Famed Finish," a view of the Lodge. (bottom) An Arnold Palmer portrait, commissioned by his friend, sportscaster Jim Nantz. It hangs in the Lodge. 140 C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • W I N T E R 2 0 1 9