You’re Invited

I will be part of a group show at The Gallery at Twenty Pearl in Hyannis Saturday August 23. The reception is from 5 – 8 PM and I would love to see my friends and collectors all there. I will be showing all new works and welcome your input. Showing along with me are pastel and oils painter, Shawn Dahlstrom, glass artist Caryn Samuell and photographer Beth Higgins. Hope to see you there! The show runs for two weeks.

Workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center

July 21 begins a week of an advanced painting workshop in Provincetown under the direction of Sue Miller. I will be well out of my comfort zone, working with acryllics and collage etc. but excited about the opportunity to open up to new ways of working and thinking. And of course, to Provincetown, one of the best places to be in the world.

Exciting Opening

“The Gallery at Twenty Pearl” opens tonight (July 3rd) with eighteen artists. It is my gallery cooperative here on Cape Cod and is located in the ehart of the Hyannis Arts Distrcit, The Shirley Flynn Art Center. Please come by and wish us luck.

Celebration of the Arts at the Cape Cod Cultural Center

Check out the the artists and artisans at the Cape Cod Cultural Center in Yarmouth through June 22nd. I am exhibiting twenty pieces. There’s a food court and strolling musicians and great fun for everyone.  

A Sense of Place

     Because I am now posting most of my images directly into my website, I will be using this blog largely for the writings that I always feel “go” with the images that I paint, the places that possess, or perhaps obsess, me here on Cape Cod, and in Canada. These writings may be directly posted to the blog home page or sometimes, if the piece is more formally composed, be listed in the Pages section in the sidebar under Places and Essays. You can view larger images of these works on my website. Collectors often request copies of the essays about the places that have inspired me. 
     Also I will be posting images and poetry that strike me as particularly lovely or important to my artwork to my home page. Plus I am working on video production for this blog and will have updates as to its progress.
     Please check the Events and Announcements Page which will always list where you might find me or my work at any given time. Look for the announcement of the opening of my barn studio and gallery in Eastham this summer.

The Artist’s Journey

                                        

                                           The traveler has to knock

at every alien door

to come to her own,

and she has to wander

through all the other worlds

to reach the innermost

shrine at the end.

—Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali

Northern Snow Field 12 x 12 oil on canvas

Anyone who has traveled betwen Boston and Montreal in winter passes by a few snowfields just like this one. But my memories of back country roamings in my youth are what has generated this painting, and others that are forthcoming. Every northern artist will tell you that snow is loaded with colour, that it is a challenge to paint snow convincingly because to the artist’s eye it simply vibrates with colours that are almost impossible to capture. 

The Uncertain Hour 24 x 24 oil/canvas

There is an hour or two late in the evening on Cape Cod Bay in Eastham, where the slanting sun infuses the atmosphere with an entirely new feeling, so unlike the summertime when the setting sun appears to swallow up the sea. These are uncertain hours; perhaps morning, perhaps evening, perhaps now, perhaps then.

Two Trees in a Fallow Field oil/board 18 x 18

This is my favourite painting, and it’s also the one painting I have permanenty ruined. I drove a nail right through the top while trying to frame it. Now the only place it will ever hang is in my living room, which is fine by me.

Rosy Fingered Dawn o/c 20 x 20

This is a view of Nauset Marsh in Eastham that I return to over and over again. I used to be a trespasser upon this scene but now I have permission to access this place anytime I feel the need. This painting was begun on the spot one winter dawn. Such beauty in the dead of winter is a privilege to see and an inspiration to paint.