Wedgewood WEDGEWOOD 30″ x 30” May 7, 2014 This painting, Wedgewood, was a difficult venture into transparency and lightness. Trying to achieve a recurrent texture of white under something almost as pale. I love the chalkiness of actual Wedgwood china, and its fragile, tender, pale blue. Sometimes, imbued with a smokiness that made it melancholy […]
Khaki KHAKI 30″ x 30” August 4, 2013 I loved Khaki’s tone-on-tone juxtaposition of pale olive greens. Ultimately, I dared to be a little less slick and more rough in the surface rendition. I guess, a reference to what I imagined real khaki cloth can be. Six stripes gave me more room to play. In
Zinnias ZINNIAS 30″ x 30” July 13, 2013 Flowers of childhood, Zinnias, reminded me of my mother and long hot summers in our suburban backyard. These flowers are easy to grow from seed, and incredibly hardy and colorful. With a longevity of bloom all the way through autumn, they are a reassuring subject. The palette
Pool in Field POOL IN FIELD 30″ x 30” July 7, 2013 Here is another adventure into more brush strokes—Pool in Field. The point at which I was no longer afraid of showing the process of painting. There can not be a more quintessential image of summer than the juxtaposition of blue pool water and
Blue Irises at Night BLUE IRISES AT NIGHT 30″ x 30” July 4, 2013 (SOLD) This painting, Blue Irises at Night, felt like a giant dangerous experiment at the time. I show strokes of the brush—isolated, single strokes for that matter, bold as calligraphy. Abandoning my perfect ordered color fields within stripes. Instead, using the
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Fog Crystals FOG CRYSTALS 30″ x 30” July 1 > November 1, 2013 (SOLD) This painting, Fog Crystals, was a struggle of a painting that was re-painted at least ten times. What the hell are they anyway, except something struggling in my imagination? That said, the absurd fictional idea was nevertheless valid in my artist’s
Aubergine Cottage Aubergine Cottage 30″ x 30” June 21, 2013 This painting achieved a slick, swift set of alternating grey and aubergine stripes that felt as comforting. Masculine and velour-like. This introverted painting breathed the notion of being indoors on a cozy rainy day. Experimenting with juxtaposing two colors that are close but different—cousins more
Beach Roses BEACH ROSES 30″ x 30” June 15, 2013 This painting evoked the irregular colors of ripe and unripe rose hips on the rambling rose bushes on the sand dunes near Quansoo Beach. What I loved about Beach Roses is that each stripe had its own unique color. Also, there was no repetition of
Lichen Mist LICHEN MIST 30″ x 30” May 29, 2013 The oak forests of the southern coast of Martha’s Vineyard are a dense patchwork of lichen-covered bark—Lichen Mist. Probably a result of the salt air and humidity captured between the trunks. I was still a beginner with oil paint at the time and felt like
Chilmark Pond CHILMARK POND 30″ x 30” May 22, 2013 A pond seems to have no current, and expresses placidness better than any nature form I know. Chilmark Pond, the reflection of the sky and surrounding trees in contained still water. Taking on a life all its own, when viewed as a discrete object of
