There is nothing more rewarding, no matter what you make or what you do, than to know your work adds something positive to someone’s life. Several pieces have been placed in corporate and health care settings, and I have occasionally been contacted by viewers of these pieces, commenting on how the imagery uplifted them. Work at Smilow Cancer Center and Yale-New Haven Hospital, has hung for several years there, and I have received emails from patients “thanking” me for having those pieces on display. The images, I’m told, bring some positivity to the difficult times they are enduring. Very gratifying.
This piece, “First Light of a New Day” is another piece headed to another cancer hospital. The Hospital of Central Connecticut has completed construction of its new center center, and “First Light” has been purchased, amongst many pieces by other artists, to hang in this beautiful new space, and hopefully bring some peace and positivity to those patients who will soon benefit from this impressive new Center. The project has been coordinated by Joni Taub of Art3 Gallery, Manchester, NH.
Sort of an unintentional abstract while mixing colors…
Just completed and delivered the first painting of 2015, “Stone Ramp” a large 52 x 48, to Powers Gallery in Acton, MA.
With the Holidays behind us, a new year ahead of us, and the only snowfall of the season melted and keeping the grass green, the new year brings new possibilities, resolutions, and opportunities. I’m looking forward to getting back into the studio, back to work on new pieces, and pushing ahead on commissions, several shows, supplying galleries with new work, and trying out a few new subjects.
It’s been a mild winter at Parker Farm, with the only snow of the season coming well before Christmas (and now all gone). The skis are sitting where I last took them off after the first (and currently last) ski of the season, and have settled onto the brick patio, waiting for the next storm. And while Spring will be here soon enough, there’s plenty of winter left…hopefully!… and plenty of work to do.
Happy New Year, and best wishes for a happy, healthy, and productive 2015!
A recent commission project for a Connecticut family’s summer house on Lake Sunapee lead to this just-completed small commissioned piece of one of the barns at Riverside Farm, outside Woodstock, VT. The family who commissioned the piece held their daughter’s wedding at Riverside this past summer, and as a Christmas gift to the newlyweds, will present this painting of the barn where the couple’s reception was held, as their gift.
Great commission project with buyers from outside Boston who commissioned a piece for their Jackson, NH home. The residence is located slopeside to one of the area’s ski mountains, and the piece needed to echo the slope of their location. The couple also wanted to capture in the piece the dramatic light of dusk in the White Mountains… and the result is “Highland Dusk.”
Because color is often the true subject of a piece, I like to start a painting with a particular color in mind…which often leads to the title. In this case, Azure was painted with the blueish tint often seen in weathered wood. When you catch a glimpse of weathered clapboard, or barn board, particularly in late afternoon, a bluish hue emerges from what, at first glance, might appear as gray. With Azure, I amplified that blue, and built the remaining color palette around that central color.
This piece is available through Woodstock Gallery, Woodstock Vt.
Pastel drawing of barn in Grantham, NH “twin” barns. One of a series of works underway of these structures.
One of Boston’s best resources for designers and architects, the Boston Design Guide, has featured the Powers Gallery’s Fall Show where several new pieces, including “Old Brewster,” are on exhibit. Work in this show can be previewed at the Powers Gallery site. New work at Harrison Gallery can be viewed here: conta.cc/1vPV3dm
October marks the influx of “leaf peepers” to our Northern New England states. Before the buses roll in, I managed a trip to Vermont–partly to drop work off in Woodstock, but also to gather reference material. The twin barns in Grantham, NH (just south of the VT border), are perhaps the most stately old structures around. Beat up by time, but as solid looking as they must have been over 100 years go. Above, “The Granthams” is one of several new pieces based on this scene.
