New work. A neighbor’s farm, and it’s many acres of meadows, is often inspiration for landscapes, and while recently driving past the place, I caught a glimpse of these three trees through an clearing in the bramble that grows along the stone wall that separates the road from the field. “Crabapple” 48 x 30 o/c
There’s something special when asked to do a commission where the couple are selecting a painting as a gift to each other to commemorate their wedding day. This piece is based on a beautiful location, the Quechee Inn at Marshland Farm in Vermont, where they held their wedding ceremony. “Unity” 48 x 36 o/c
Recently completed piece based on a scene in Maine, near Sebago Lake. “Summer Farm” 24 x 12 o/c
I don’t get to Maine often enough. In fact, I get there very rarely, despite it possibly having some of the most beautiful scenery of all the New England states. I did, however, recently visit inland Maine (thanks to Google Street View), somewhere up near Belgrade Lakes, and came across this scene. I found the steep pitch of the barn rather unique and loved the almost autumn colors of the white pines behind it. “Down East” 20 x 16 o/c
There’s something uniquely rustic and utilitarian about old fishing shacks. Built near the ocean, or on marshes, they’re often propped up on stilts to keep the floor above rising tides. This one is part of a small grouping of similar structures on the Cape, and has survived many winter storms, and astronomical high tides, while some of the others have not. “Beach Shack” 24 x 12 o/c
New piece based on a scene I encountered in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts years ago. I’ve painted it several times, in each the palette is different, with this being the soft palette of the Spring-to-Summer colors of this time of year. “June” 30 x 24
Along the coast, sand goes where it wants to go. It constantly shifts depending on the wind, tides, and waves. One of our local beaches on the Cape, on the Bay side, is a long stretch of sand and dunes that gets hit hard during storms and extreme high tides. Several of the beach houses along that stretch are constantly consumed by sand dunes, especially after winter storms. They get dug out, but the following year, the sand is back. “Duneshift” 40 x 30 o/c.
In the up-Island town of Chilmark, on Martha’s Vineyard, there are several salt-water ponds that that border the town of Aquinnah. One of those ponds, Nashaquitsa (known as Quitsa), can be seen from State Road, which follows higher ground, and has many nondescript dirt roads that break from it, and lead down to the pond, and to older homes that can’t be seen from the main road. “Road to Quitsa” 48 x 24 o/c
If you’ve ever been to Martha’s Vineyard, you know Oak Bluffs. Someone once told me that of all the Island towns, when it comes to OB (as it’s called), you either love it or you hate it. I love it. It’s (in my opinion), the most interesting and colorful town on the Vineyard. Away from bustling Circuit Ave, the famous Carousel, the Steamship Docks and Ocean Park, the architecture of the many summer places there is classic summer cottage style, with simple lines, huge wrap-around porches with ceilings painted robin’s egg blue. Many sit high on the hilly land that likely contributed to the town’s name. “On the Bluffs” 40 x 30
When we lived on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, our first home was in Aquinnah (then called Gay Head). It’s the most remote location, famous for it’s lighthouse and clay cliffs. The roads that lead from the down-Island towns of Vineyard Haven, Edgartown, and Oak Bluffs, become more and more remote the farther up-Island you drive. This place is in Chilmark, the last town before Aquinnah. I’d pass this house daily on the drive from Aquinnah to Vineyard Haven, and back. Saw it recently, and it hasn’t changed since those daily drives, over 30 years ago. “Far Up-Island” 24 x 12 o/c.
