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Why in the world would one want to do this? I have been asked this as well as have been told many times, "Oh I dont want to sell my art I give it away." The implication is art is above trade, buying and selling those plebian activities of human commerce and may I say,...
(The above picture is what I painted while in my tent during a deluge at a Bar Harbor show. All the other artists, except my friend Lori Davis a wonderful wild life photographer, had packed up and headed home....but I stayed dry, sipped my tea and painted...) For the...
Of an Ordinary Life There are days I really just want to paint with words. Creating a world to enter with words is so different and yet the same as using paint. Is that an oxymoron? I have always wanted to be a story teller which is why I paint stories. Now I shall...
It was a rainy day so it is a story eve. Our Jack and I went for the walk across the barrens and marsh. Now tell me how would you describe the sound of wind driven rain hitting the cacooning anorak? That sound brought quicker than a photograph moments from 40 years...
Hiroshige teaches me about Maine Landscape Paintings. As I work on a new gold leaf screen, I become inspired by the swirls in the gold and the texture in the substructure. The piece is of the outbound road from Schoodic. For 7 short miles we preserve beauty even if it...
Recently I have been in shows in which a goodly number of an artist's inventory relies on copies. There are 2 reasons for this. One is to maximize the amount one can gain from a given image. The other is to make available an image with which many want to live. There...
HELPING A MEDIUM SING This summer more folks are asking me why paint in so many different mediums. This pointed question has made me articulate an intuited tendency. Just as with my children, I work to bring out the best qualities and characteristics in a medium. This...