Each frame is made using slow-drying oil paints on a backlit glass 'canvass'.

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Until the mid-1980s, when the oil bust hit and jobs began drying up, Premont was a thriving oil and ranching town with state-of-the-art schools, including a 30-acre agricultural farm and a roping arena.

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Meanwhile, the money for fuel oil keeps drying up.

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But the fall in the oil price means that this is drying up.

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