About My Art...
Wed. Session O'Shea's Old Inn, Dennis MA
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Every season, every day and hour holds a new view:
Winter: moon shadows and windowpane ice along the shore, blowing snow across a lake, hemlock branches heavy with new snow.
Spring: fresh breezes, ice breaking up, frogs courting.
Summer: salmon sunrise, flaming sunset, waterbugs whirling, eaglets learning to fish.
Fall: Reflected in the lake, a double image of flame, leaf patterns floating in a pool or lining a path.
I have never been much of a “detail” or realistic painter. I try to use color relationships to say what I’m thinking, to express a mood. I’ve liked pushing a piece with texture and brush movement. But the palette knife is still a tool of importance to me.
Painters I’ve been privileged know and learn from: Most memorably, Phil Malicoat, one of the venerable Provincetown painters. Pia MacKenzie, with her playful approach to art making, (monotype printmaking).
I continuously look at art. I remember the first time I saw John Singer Sargent’s work, and VanGough, Winslow Homer, Maxfield Parrish. I love the woodcuts of Mary Azarian. Kathe Kollwitz’s etchings.
Winter: moon shadows and windowpane ice along the shore, blowing snow across a lake, hemlock branches heavy with new snow.
Spring: fresh breezes, ice breaking up, frogs courting.
Summer: salmon sunrise, flaming sunset, waterbugs whirling, eaglets learning to fish.
Fall: Reflected in the lake, a double image of flame, leaf patterns floating in a pool or lining a path.
I have never been much of a “detail” or realistic painter. I try to use color relationships to say what I’m thinking, to express a mood. I’ve liked pushing a piece with texture and brush movement. But the palette knife is still a tool of importance to me.
Painters I’ve been privileged know and learn from: Most memorably, Phil Malicoat, one of the venerable Provincetown painters. Pia MacKenzie, with her playful approach to art making, (monotype printmaking).
I continuously look at art. I remember the first time I saw John Singer Sargent’s work, and VanGough, Winslow Homer, Maxfield Parrish. I love the woodcuts of Mary Azarian. Kathe Kollwitz’s etchings.
