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Boston Oil Paintings

Sold 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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Night Harbor from Memory

Sometimes  you notice  a couple random colors  against each other somewhere and a new painting  can come to you. These could be two colors on a blouse. Two colors on my palette or on a scrap of someones old  discarded paper.  A deep green against a deeper blue and it takes me instantly back to  [...]

Nantucket Sound

This is a painting of Esty Street down near Hyannis Harbor. It is a Barnstable Land Trust property. A small preserved parcel between the Nantucket Sound and old bungalow cottages.   This painting is of a small example of Cape Cod’s small wet lands that are often filled in by developers. The air is rife [...]

Which way do you want to go?

My students are doing very good work. I can line up 12-20 studies by them  done in class, and they are all  different and they all have supreme potential. Do you know when you are painting well? Do you know when you are in trouble? Do you know when it’s time to take it up [...]