Hi friends and art enthusiasts. This spring I've been working hard to frame paintings for the upcoming season, and here it is. In some ways it feels like summer already. Right now I have 11 paintings at George Marshall Store Gallery in York, 3 paintings at Thos. Moser in Freeport, 3 paintings at Trove in Searsport, 11 paintings at Littlefield Gallery in Winter Harbor, and last but not least, 35 paintings at Landing Gallery in Rockland, for my upcoming solo show A New Season. The show opens during the First Friday art walk in Rockland on June 7th. I'm planning to be there from around 4 p.m. on, and would love to see friends and family who feel like venturing out that evening. Here's a painting from the show:
Summer shadow on Walker Pond, from Caterpillar Hill, Sedgwick, Maine - oil/panel, 20 x 30", 2023.
And here is my statement from the show:
"Every day I make a few choices and set some small achievable goals. Each painting in this exhibit is the result. First comes the decision to gather my art supplies and set forth. Then there is the choice to inhabit the day and season as fully as I can. I begin again, often with a pencil and sketchbook, then brushstroke by brushstroke with paint, panel, and canvas. I believe in observational painting. Getting outside to look works for me. Over time I’ve come to consider painting as mindfulness: an awareness of the present moment alongside a losing of oneself into the whole, into the timeless sacredness of everything. These days I feel like I’m in the middle of some new way of being, even as I continue to struggle with the difficult changes I did not want after the death of my husband Ryan. This is apparently a new season of life. The landscape keeps asking for my participation in it, through painting. I don’t question it; I get out the door and do it. I think these new paintings reflect my determination. They feel solid and true, full of radiance and shadow, movement and color. They accurately describe my experience. I’ve been working with the landscape for over twenty years now. And for over ten years of solo shows at Landing Gallery: thank you, Bruce and Roberta."
Another painting from the show:
"Every day I make a few choices and set some small achievable goals. Each painting in this exhibit is the result. First comes the decision to gather my art supplies and set forth. Then there is the choice to inhabit the day and season as fully as I can. I begin again, often with a pencil and sketchbook, then brushstroke by brushstroke with paint, panel, and canvas. I believe in observational painting. Getting outside to look works for me. Over time I’ve come to consider painting as mindfulness: an awareness of the present moment alongside a losing of oneself into the whole, into the timeless sacredness of everything. These days I feel like I’m in the middle of some new way of being, even as I continue to struggle with the difficult changes I did not want after the death of my husband Ryan. This is apparently a new season of life. The landscape keeps asking for my participation in it, through painting. I don’t question it; I get out the door and do it. I think these new paintings reflect my determination. They feel solid and true, full of radiance and shadow, movement and color. They accurately describe my experience. I’ve been working with the landscape for over twenty years now. And for over ten years of solo shows at Landing Gallery: thank you, Bruce and Roberta."
Another painting from the show:
Clearing, end of March, Northern Bay, Penobscot, Maine - oil/panel, 9 x 12", 2023.
I've also been out painting quite a bit, close to home. I find myself seeking out new views of familiar landscapes and seascapes. And working on this website too. I've added several new pages. First, to share some of the paintings I've made as elegies for Ry, who I miss beyond measure, daily. Then, some other paintings I've been wanting to see together for quite some time, these nocturnes, which tell where I'm at. And some of my new coastal landscapes are here. I also have some work available in my studio for sale, and I welcome visitors (with a little notice). Finally, two of my paintings are shown in the beautiful new book by Carl and David Little, Art of Penobscot Bay, which was published this spring by Islandport Press.
That's all my news for now, thanks for looking. I hope to have paintings in a few other places later this summer, as well as being a featured artist with Littlefield Gallery in September/October, so I will write again about all that when the time is nigh. Until then, peace.
That's all my news for now, thanks for looking. I hope to have paintings in a few other places later this summer, as well as being a featured artist with Littlefield Gallery in September/October, so I will write again about all that when the time is nigh. Until then, peace.
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