Recently I had an fortunate/unfortunate experience in the process of selling a large canvas. (Well, 4′ x 4′- not that large.) Having someone fall in love with the painting and take it to a new, happy home was great. A successful sale was great. But one of the stretcher bars had warped. Not so […]
Yesterday we took a drive to Glens Falls, NY to visit the Hyde Collection. It was a perfect New England summer day. Our mission was to mail a small original painting to Utah, and to send a giclée print on canvas of Raven Nest to Maine, then see to the show. The Hyde Collection is […]
Why does this steamy tropical world thrill me? Perhaps it’s the mystery of a once grand civilization whose history is expressed in enigmatic images… In art. All that remains is their art. Their architecture. Their monuments. The mysterious glyphs. But even that the jungle has claimed. Buried in centuries of layers of leaf litter turned […]
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. -Ovid, born 43 BCE And yet, there is something powerful to be found in longevity. Ovid’s words speak to us from Rome more than 2000 years ago. For many, the language he spoke is now an obsolete exercise, valiantly kept alive by […]
Edna St Vincent Millay What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou? Edna St. Vincent Millay Blogging is much like shouting into the void. Arias in the wilderness. Cyberspace is vast, dark and airless. Who is even out there? And if there is someone there, are they listening? Why would they? Why […]
Kidz Aartz Summer Studio program in my studio in BRandon Vermont Working joyfully with clay in Kidz Aartz The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust I just received a great Youtube connection: inspiration and innocence, set to music, a poem about how important the […]
Joseph Mallord William Turner It's already been several weeks since our wild ride down the back bone of the Taconic Mountains to Williamstown MA, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to see: Circles of Influence, O'Keeffe and Dove. It was wonderful to see old friends by O'Keeffe such asThe Lawrence Tree painted in […]
Ms. Maddy working on her raised gesso image. A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx Gotta love Groucho. The children who chose to spend last week with me were all older than five, but still fully connected to the creative source that gives them the […]
Ms. Maddy working on her raised gesso image. A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx Gotta love Groucho. The children who chose to spend last week with me were all older than five, but still fully connected to the creative source that gives them the […]
It's a lovely day in Vermont with the sun shining in the south windows. No need for a fire in the woodstove. The temperature is troubling… quite warm… all traces of our first snow have vanished even in the shadows. The ice in our little puddle/pond garden is a transparent black skiff floating away from […]