I hide art. Sometimes you don’t know what to do with these problem paintings, so I put them away and forget. There are probably a lot of artists out there that hide their art too. There is something very refreshing about putting new work away, out of site, out of reach, out of mind, whether [...]
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As the sun finally comes out, I want to write about the fog. The fog surrounding the beaches where I live is a consistent visual and I love it. A lot of artists are in a fog about what to paint. Today I am posting an overcast harbor scene of Wellfleet Massachusetts, 16×20.” I told [...]
Evolving Locations
Published by February 14th, 2010 in Art, Blog, Boston, art teacher, fine art and painting on location. 0 CommentsAs 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 [...]
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 [...]
Revisited, Reinventing, Refreshed
Published by September 17th, 2009 in Art, Blog, Orleans gallery, art teacher and fine art. 3 CommentsPainting 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
Published by September 7th, 2009 in Blog, Boston and painting on location. 0 CommentsPainting 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 [...]
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
Published by August 22nd, 2009 in Blog, FenwayArt, Orleans gallery and art teacher. 1 CommentI 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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