Happy holidays and new year - a decade is about to turn over and with it comes a welcome fresh start. I am inside for the winter, and working on my new solo show "At Sea: new paintings of the Maine coast" for May-June of 2020, with Landing Gallery in Rockland. The paintings for the show are finished, and I am about to start framing them. We are working on a new catalogue, which will be ready in late April. Good winter projects! I am also adding to the most recent draft of a book I am writing about being a landscape painter on an island in Maine. I think a few months of work on it will see it finished, and I have a stack of paintings set aside in my studio to illustrate it. But if I don't finish it this winter I will set it aside when outdoor painting weather returns, and revisit it again next winter. I'm in no hurry. I want it to be as good as I know how to make it, just like my paintings, and I know from experience how much time that can take. Meanwhile I am enjoying seeing my new paintings in the studio. I worked hard this year and have a lot to look at. Living with them for months shows me where I want to go next in my work, what I would like to attempt. I continue to be enthralled by groups of islands and headlands, surrounded by salt water and big skies. This iteration of that theme will be at Landing Gallery in the new show:
"Pink light out to sea, from the Pinkham Bay Bridge, Steuben, Maine" - oil/panel, 11 x 14", 2019.
Islands and the ocean aren't my only interests right now, though. Like I did last year, I painted far inland a lot, especially during the fall, in the woods up around Greenville, Monson, and Katahdin, and I feel like I am continuing to get to know Maine in a new way. I also ventured into New Hampshire and did some sketching in the White Mountains. I'm hoping to do more of that in the year ahead, even as I continue to revisit my favorite coastal places to paint. We are so fortunate here in Maine, with the wealth of natural beauty all around, and I never take it for granted. I love to return to certain places again and again. They feel like never-ending sources of joy, in painting and in life.
That's all for now - except to say THANK YOU to friends and supporters who came out to see and purchase my work this past year. I appreciate you so much, and am looking ahead with hopeful anticipation to the new decade.
Islands and the ocean aren't my only interests right now, though. Like I did last year, I painted far inland a lot, especially during the fall, in the woods up around Greenville, Monson, and Katahdin, and I feel like I am continuing to get to know Maine in a new way. I also ventured into New Hampshire and did some sketching in the White Mountains. I'm hoping to do more of that in the year ahead, even as I continue to revisit my favorite coastal places to paint. We are so fortunate here in Maine, with the wealth of natural beauty all around, and I never take it for granted. I love to return to certain places again and again. They feel like never-ending sources of joy, in painting and in life.
That's all for now - except to say THANK YOU to friends and supporters who came out to see and purchase my work this past year. I appreciate you so much, and am looking ahead with hopeful anticipation to the new decade.
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