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Evolving Locations

As I load more wood into the studio stove I think about my old  friends walking through my paintings.
A  highlight-dot of color, is how I began to insert  figures into my landscapes as a focal point.  They were so vague and uncommitted, people  would ask, “is that light spot  a figure back there?”
Over the years [...]

Harvard Square, Cambridge

This week opens a big show curated by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.
It’s billed as “A Major Exhibition of Over Fifty-Five Cape Cod Artists” shown at the Cotuit Center of the Arts. The exhibition is called First Things First.
I was free to choose any painting,  and I quickly chose a new 18×24″ canvas of  [...]

Private Views, London

Celia Purcell Contemporary is having a showing this month.  I am pleased to have her  UK representation  since 2007.  She shows my London street paintings and large French landscapes  painted on location in Brittany .

Brittany Fr.
This is my favorite painting resulting from my time in France. It is large, and anyone interested will have to [...]

Boston Oil Paintings

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This is a oil painting of skaters on the Frog Pond near Beacon Hill. I am posting it to begin getting this site  in the Christmas season with a link to the gallery where it is available.
The Elizabeth Rowley Gallery has an opening today from 4-6pm to showcase new paintings for Christmas time.
I will be [...]

New Hampshire Institute of Art’s Regional Juried Exhibition Of Contemporary Art

I am pleased to announce my monotype entry “Inauguration Day Parade” has been selected for the New Hampshire Institute of Art’s Biennial Exhibition 2009. It was one of 44  selected out of over 400 entries. The exhibition runs  November 9 – December 4, 2009.
For more information
please contact:
New Hampshire Institute of Art
Alison Williams, Gallery Director
148 Concord [...]

Revisited, Reinventing, Refreshed

Painting what you love is the  artists job. To take the activities and places that move you, and capture them in paint is what it is all about. Whether it is color combination’s you want to experiment with, or new techniques you are excited to try, this is where it is at  for the creative [...]

Painting Boston on Location

Painting on location scares artists. Or I should say the thought, scares artists that don’t have a lot of experience painting outside. Years from now, I will look back on my life’s work and it will be the on- location work that sticks in my memory, not the studio days.
The wind, the bugs, the tourists; [...]

Change is Good

Last week,  I pulled my paintings  from my Cape gallery after twenty three years, to change things up.
Now I am represented in Orleans by the Elizabeth Rowley Gallery.
This gallery features very strong impressionist landscape artists, heavy on the Provincetown connection.  This is really appealing to me.  My oils are loose and getting looser. Capturing a [...]

August Studio

I was going to just post this recent shot of my studio without comment. Because I just really want to get painting this morning. Then I thought, most people are not used to seeing this kind of organized chaos. Maybe a short post would be more sufficient.
It looks like this, because I always walk past [...]

The Old Cape Cod

I know Cape Cod pretty well having lived here most of my life. There are so many beautiful areas, from Chatham where I grew up to Wellfleet where I still have family. Ocean-side Wellfleet and Eastham anytime of year is just outstanding and can be wild and loud with  surf. Bay side here is great [...]