Jul 10, 2017 | Pulp painting
I spent the day yesterday wandering the New England shoreline in search of just the right configuration of rocks, ocean waves, shoreline, seaweed, salt deposits and sea urchins for which I cannot name. After taking upwards of 235 photographs, I’ve settled on...
Apr 3, 2016 | New Artwork, Pulp painting
This is my favorite-and most challenging parts of the creative process: the final stages. The work starts to come together, but my energy flow can weaken as the process drags on. And I become so familiar with the image, (too familiar?) that I can become complacent,...
Mar 15, 2016 | New Artwork, Pulp painting
Day seven: Started working at 5:00 AM. Finally stopped at 5:00 PM. I can’t paint another rock, make up another shade of blue, worry that the waves that are crashing in front might need more waves crashing in back. I’m exhausted! I am loving the stack of...
Jan 23, 2016 | New Artwork, Pulp painting
Day One: Ah yes, the artist’s worst dilemma and greatest challenge-the blank sheet, the raw background, the gessoed canvas. Blank, white, virgin background waiting to be turned and twisted, cared for, screamed at, manipulated and manipulating. Wanting to be...
Nov 13, 2015 | Pulp painting, Upcoming events
Birch Trees, Installed, December 2014. Anna Philbrook Center, Concord, NH. Learning About The Good Work of Hospice Twenty years ago I met Diane Stringer, CEO of Hospice of the North Shore (now called Care Dimensions), when she became a patron of my artwork. She...
Mar 9, 2015 | News from the studio, Pulp painting
Last summer I had the opportunity to travel to “outer” Cape Cod. As any New Englander will tell you, the outer Cape is the REAL Cape: less crowded, more nostalgic, unspoiled. One feels the history of the place in the spongy turf under our feet, the smell...
