Pleased to have a great opening reception at Powers Gallery on Saturday night for the opening of “Dahmen and Batchelder” show that will be running through October. Great write-up in Boston Design’s online blog. Powers Gallery is in Acton, MA
42 x 30, available through Woodstock Gallery, Woodstock, VT
This small 12 x 12, along with another smaller piece, are headed to Hilton Head Island as part of a 6-piece grouping of smaller works going to auction with Red Piano Gallery (formerly Morris & Whiteside). The upcoming “Small Works” auction will be held July 18 in conjunction with the Sylvan Gallery in Charlston, SC.
To contact, email Renee O’Gara & Dave Gilly Gilstein charlestowngallery@cox.net
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New Hampshire’s White Pines elicit a “love’em or hate’em” response from those who live in this area. They are invasive, and have filled many farmer’s meadows, turning pastures to woods. Regardless how one feels about this tree, it is an icon of New Hampshire and northern New England. While I don’t like too many white pines on my property, I do like them, especially the shapes their branches and needles create at dusk. “Dusk Light” is of an old farm down the road, and as the sun sets, the cleared meadow beyond the stand of pines allows the setting sun to illuminate the remaining trees and create interesting silhouetted pattern from their branches.
New and available through Woodstock Gallery, Woodstock, VT.
Recently completed commission for Boston-area buyer.
“Fire Light” | 40 x 30 | oil on canvas
New: “Cart Road” | 36 x 32 | oil/canvas
Our smallish New Hampshire town has successfully preserved the rural character that defines much of the state, especially much less populated northern town. When people not from New Hampshire learn you live in New Hampshire, you’re likely to be asked if you live near Mount Washington, or, do you know so-and-so, who lives in Portsmouth, or Keene (all three areas at least an hour’s drive from where we live). It’s a small state, but not so small that we all now each other.
Back when our roads were dirt and defined by the stone walls they passed between, New Hampshire must have felt even larger to those who lived here, as few rarely traveled more than a few miles from their farms. Many of those old farm roads can still be seen in our town, and many are the same roads we drive on today, though now paved.
One such road, just under a mile away, cuts through a preserved and maintained farmer’s meadow, and fades off into the woods that have grown where farmland has long gone unmaintained. Maples have grown along the stone wall that defines this old road, and the stones that make the wall remain as they were when hauled and stacked there over 100 years go. I pass this scene daily, at all times of day, and have recreated here it in “Cart Road.”
It’s great to see where a work ends up, how it’s hung and affects a room. My friends at Powers Gallery in Acton shared this image of “Old Brewster” a piece based on the great light and classic architecture of the Cape. It now hangs prominently in this beautiful Concord, MA home.
“Goldenrod”
54 x 40
oil on canvas
Though a weed, the yellow/organge of Goldenrod fills the old meadows of New England farmland. This scene, from the NH/VT border shows late-day sun and gives this common weed the credit it deserves for it’s great color.
