Jade Garden Jade Garden 30″ x 30” April 03, 2017 I always loved the translucency and alternate clarity and cloudiness of jade. Such interplay encased in a stone cold to the touch, but warm to the eye. Gently modulating, sun-tinted green, faintly reminiscent of Japanese temples, or moss seen through water, prevails here. The stripes […]
Pause PAUSE 36″ x 36” June 29, 2016 After weeks of experiencing a flurry of bright, nascent spring colors on my farm in Martha’s Vineyard. As the oaks sprout the brightest green leaves, and the lawns prosper. And my astilbe garden bursts into bright flowers of pink, magenta and red. I needed a sort of pause from
Cirque d’Hiver CIRQUE D’HIVER 36″ x 36” June 3, 2016 This painting is a playful meditation on a beautiful, cylindrical theatre in Paris called Le Cirque d’Hiver, on rue Amelot in the 11th arrondisement. This low-roofed dome theatre is an oval polygon of 20 sides. Thus inspiring my vertical stripes and the curved motif at the bottom
Valentines Day VALENTINES DAY 36″ x 36” February 17, 2016 The holiday, Valentines Day, risks being a commercial cliché where (so-called) lovers–old and new–re-affirm their love and affection. Through an exchange of notes, gifts, flowers, chocolates, and what have you. While painting this, of course, I imagined a deluge of flowers and chocolates and their wrappings. Ultimately, I came to the conclusion that
Canal Verdigris CANAL VERDIGRIS 36″ x 36” February 13, 2016 Often in Paris, I walk along the Seine, finding my way to its tributary canals. There, are old copper lampposts that mark the corners of ancient stone bridges. This painting, Canal Verdigris, is a sunny take on what is usually a grey and overcast Paris. Where
Dawn, Dusk DAWN, DUSK 36″ x 36” February 10, 2016 Again, I return to my fascination with the passage of time, of the movement of the sun, in this painting. Dawn, Dusk—here is something reminiscent of sunlight coming through a screen of trees at different times of day. I riddle the white and grey pigment with a recurrent use of
Ghost Horses GHOST HORSES 30″ x 30” January 9, 2016 I seem preoccupied with white these days, anticipating a snowy winter that has yet to come. The furtive freedom of Ghost Horses, loose and lost. Running across a treeless field of snow, inspires. Here is a painting that is spontaneous, light, and fleeting, like a
Gate of Pines GATE OF PINES 36″ x 36” January 8, 2016 Evergreens, always a subject of fascination for me: noble, vigilant, my apostles at the edge of the field. In sunlight they take on a brighter green, their needles lively and sometimes sparkling with resin. Toward nightfall they seem fiercer, braced to protect. A
Snow Fugue SNOW FUGUE 36″ x 36” January 6, 2016 This painting, Snow fugue, is a lyrical exercise in examining layers of white. Pocked with various lavender-blue strokes of paint, in varying intensities. Trying to capture the feeling of weightlessness that happens during a heavy snowfall. Similar to being underwater, with the mind and the
Pastorale PASTORALE 36″ x 36” November 28, 2015 This painting, Pastorale, reminds me of a Mahler song, as if heard in the farthest distance on a cold cold day. Hardly discernable, during a walk in the forest behind my home, during a winter sunrise. The slight variations on paleness, the approach toward the lightest pink. Or
