Studio Updates
New: “Close to Shore”
New piece based on the Stage Harbor Light, in Chatham, MA (Cape Cod). I’ve seen this lighthouse many times, and painted it a few. It’s a favorite destination for many visitors to the Cape, built on a sand spit, and located as a beacon for boaters navigating the sandbars surrounding Monomoy Island. “Close to Shore”
New: “Wild Meadow”
There’s a small meadow next to our house, which had been mowed a couple times a year by a local farmer whose family used to own the farm this plot of land was a part of. The farm sold, and the meadow is now left to grow, uncontrolled by the twice-yearly mowings. “Wild Meadow” 48
New: “Crabapple”
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
New: “Unity” (commission)
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
New: “Summer Farm”
Recently completed piece based on a scene in Maine, near Sebago Lake. “Summer Farm” 24 x 12 o/c
New: “Down East”
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
New: “Beach Shack”
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
New: “June”
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
New: “Duneshift”
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
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,