The window for outdoor painting is firmly closed for the season, for this painter at least. I did get a few final plein air paintings in, a few weeks ago, but they were made in the front seat of our car. It was just a little too raw outside and I couldn't find any other way to get out of the wind. But being inside doesn't slow me down - I do keep painting, all winter long, in my attic studio. I paint the view out the windows - down the hill and out to the far horizon, which is blue and wide after all the leaves have fallen - and I also paint from my own photographs, usually on much larger canvases than I would venture to take outside with me, even when the weather is fine. I find it thrilling to be able to work on a larger scale from time to time, and in fact would like to do it much more often. That's one goal, among many, for the year ahead.
Meanwhile, here are a few notes about where to see my work right now. I just took several small paintings to Landing Gallery in Rockland, Maine, including this one:
Meanwhile, here are a few notes about where to see my work right now. I just took several small paintings to Landing Gallery in Rockland, Maine, including this one:
Begonia, phlox, feverfew, Islesboro, Maine - oil/panel, 7" x 5". As I've written here before, still life was my first painting love (long before I found a home in landscape painting). The sustained attention it requires, the close looking - especially at the fascinatingly beautiful minutiae of nature - never gets old. This one makes use of some of the colors that turn up most in my landscape paintings - gray, warm white, cream, pale blue, and spring green, and adds a pure yellow I don't use often but do love.
A few small paintings of mine are also up right now at Åarhus Gallery in Belfast, Maine, for their small works holiday Extravaganza show, sadly their last, as they are closing up for good at the end of December. It has been such a privilege to occasionally show work with the great people there. I'll miss them, and the art space they created - it has been a gem.
In other news, I'm so pleased to be able to say that I'll be having a second solo show with Landing Gallery in June-July of 2015. Almost all of the paintings are already completed and only need frames and hanging hardware, so I'm going to work on that over the coming months. More news about the show in the spring. Which right now seems very far away! But until then I have a huge pile of new canvases, stretched and gessoed and ready to paint on, and that's my main focus for the winter. Best wishes to friends and family near and far, and happy holidays, too. And my thanks for making this past year the most successful I've ever had. Words cannot say how blessed I feel, to be able to keep doing this thing - painting - that I love so much.
A few small paintings of mine are also up right now at Åarhus Gallery in Belfast, Maine, for their small works holiday Extravaganza show, sadly their last, as they are closing up for good at the end of December. It has been such a privilege to occasionally show work with the great people there. I'll miss them, and the art space they created - it has been a gem.
In other news, I'm so pleased to be able to say that I'll be having a second solo show with Landing Gallery in June-July of 2015. Almost all of the paintings are already completed and only need frames and hanging hardware, so I'm going to work on that over the coming months. More news about the show in the spring. Which right now seems very far away! But until then I have a huge pile of new canvases, stretched and gessoed and ready to paint on, and that's my main focus for the winter. Best wishes to friends and family near and far, and happy holidays, too. And my thanks for making this past year the most successful I've ever had. Words cannot say how blessed I feel, to be able to keep doing this thing - painting - that I love so much.
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