I just delivered a carload of paintings to Landing Gallery in Rockland for my upcoming solo show, Sea Level, which opens this Friday evening, June 6th. The gallery website has photos of all the paintings and my statement about this body of work, so please take a look! The show contains a few large studio paintings and then lots of plein air work from the past several years - around forty paintings, made one by one near the high tide line, this way:
Seeing all the paintings in the gallery is like looking back in time, for me. I remember my painting days so vividly, in both cool fog and bright sun, both morning and evening, and the paintings themselves become reminders of these many times and places of great joy and direct engagement with nature.
Preparing for this exhibit aside, I've been reveling in the return of warm(ish) weather to coastal Maine, which means even more long days painting outside. This was my view, recently:
Preparing for this exhibit aside, I've been reveling in the return of warm(ish) weather to coastal Maine, which means even more long days painting outside. This was my view, recently:
Sometimes I stand at the easel and sometimes I like to sit right down in the rocks. It depends on the vantage point I most want, the activity of the wind and tide, and the size of the canvas or panel I'm using. That's an 18" x 24" canvas, half-finished at this point. The basalt ledges were weathered smooth by the tide and were very soft underfoot. The day was exquisite and I felt so lucky to be there. But every day out painting feels like that! One of the many reasons I love it so much. I hope it shows in the paintings.
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