Pilot Post

Winter Spindrift # 2     24"x24"

One thing  which has encouraged me to get back into the studio was attending a painters' critique session yesterday at Nancy Gerlach's, run by Bert Yarborough ( http://www.bertyarborough.com/) who teaches art at Colby-Sawyer. It was a Strafford Artworks session, and we have utilized his excellent skills before by bringing in paintings with which we are having problems for him to critique. Yesterday I brought in two problem pieces, and one piece in progress, and he was very helpful and extremely encouraging to me. This got my engines started. Another impetus to head back to the studio is the nice fat check I received from East End Gallery in Nantucket, where I have had some success selling my work. I seem to have an admirer up there on that beautiful island--- the wife of the CEO of google, who has bought four of my pieces in the past few years, the most recent one purchased by her interior designer for their yacht. Here are several of them.  

Water's Edge     12" x 12"

                                                                               I am at my best when I am near water, whether it's a pond, a lake, a stream or the ocean: to me, water represents the very essence of  life, especially the sea. During my lifetime, it has always been a healing source,  both physically & spiritually. This body of work could not be more personal. For the good part of a year, I concentrated on the sea, focusing on composition and light, and the dynamics of color in the creation of what I can only call emotion. These pieces, like most of my work, are veiled and layered, scraped away and glazed, and glazed again. Underlayment shows through, ultimately creating a surface that hopefully has a sumptuous veneer.