Pasture, January 26

Pasture, January 26. (Sold) This is the 5th piece completed on these cradled panels. I often can't resist this view. I don't pass this way very often any more, but the road is on high ground, so the vista opens up so nicely. Those bushes are always strangely inviting.

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Patch

 

Patch (Sold)

.....a bit of light peeks through the cloud cover, and lights a tiny section of field at dusk. Acrylic collage painting on archival paper 7.5 x 10.75 inches, image size 6.5 x 9.5 inches.

 

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Lost Dog Hill, November 29

 ...cold and quiet.....the first snow came and went....the hill a constant companion. Acrylic collage painting on paper, 8 x 11.25 inches, image size 7 x 10.25 inches.

I never get tired of painting this hill..... and there are certain days when no other subject will do.

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Sundown, Jane's Forest (Sold)

 

...the last sliver of light over the new forest...November 27. Acrylic collage painting on archival paper, 9 x 10.5 inches, image size 8 x 9.5 inches.

 

In some of these, I know beforehand that the process will be more complex, or relatively simple. Both are fine, but it is important for me to mix the processes up, to keep things unpredictable and surprising.

 

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10 Saved Acres, From Afar (Sold)

 ...into early winter....but the first snow has melted. Acrylic collage painting on thin birch panel, 7.5 x 12 inches.

This was painted yesterday on American Thanksgiving Day. Today it is raining all day, so this mood continues.

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First Snow, Garden Hill

 

First Snow, Garden Hill

...a fresh, brilliant day....snow fell during the night. Acrylic collage painting on thin birch panel, 8.5 x 12 inches. This blue had a special quality to it, and again, I was pleased that I didn't mess with it too much in the painting stage. Collaging white paper on top of another glued colour is always beautiful to me also (I often use that for snow...and I love how the white paper gets all accidentally but subtly marked up), but in this case I did paint over much of the white collage paper. I generally do enjoy painting winter a great deal...the structure of the land is more apparent....things are more spare....

 

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November Pasture (Sold)

A severe cut in the sky...rain ahead...pasture lands next to the forest. Acrylic collage painting on gessoed, thin birch panel 9 x 12 inches.

Because habituation takes place in all things, diminishing the intensity of experience, I search constantly for ways to keep the process fresh. These new panel paintings were one such thing. Now that I have made perhaps 5-6 of them in a row, the process has to be mixed again. After this work came a collage painting on paper. The expectations I put on myself are different with each of these little shifts in method. This is all very important because it keeps me wanting to make work each day....

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Saturday Morning Route

 

Acrylic collage painting on matte board, 7.75 x 9.75 inches, signed lightly in pencil. They never turn out how I expect....they turn out some other way instead, but that said, there is always a balance achieved and they stop in some interesting place.

 

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Incoming at Dusk

....a companion piece to the one posted the other day. A number of years ago I started doing these sky scapes with just a bit on land on the bottom....I make a few every now and then when the skies are very active. Acrylic and pencil on single ply archival matte 7.75 x 9.75 inches, signed lightly in pencil.

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Early Winter (both SOLD)

 

Both are 8 x 10 inches, on matte board, gessoed both sides.

November 9, Light Fall

 

......the light goes quickly in November.....at 4:00 evening is not far off....
8 x 10 inches, acrylic and pencil on matte board, gessoed both sides.

Lookout, November 2 (SOLD)

 

From high ground, looking onto the valleys below....8 x 8 inches, acrylic and pencil on matte board, gessoed both sides.

Garden Hill, November 1

 

8 x 8 inches, acrylic and  pencil on matte board gessoed both sides.....overcast, wet days of fall...with a light covering of snow that didn't stay.

Nightfall, October (SOLD)

A bittersweet time....the dark days come. I often get home so late that I'm walking in the dark or near dark. A favourite location.....the distant view at dusk reveals lights off in the distance, suggested here by the 2 specks of white. I like coming to the collages every so often. They provide a break in the type of thinking involved in the paintings....

Climb (SOLD)

 

....a sweet, gentle evening....all quiet but with clouds performing all sorts of quick formations. Acrylic and pencil on matte board, gessoed both sides, 8 x 8 inches.

On Gratitude Hill (SOLD)

 

On a bright August morning....sit and listen....we are not gone yet.

Whisper Road (SOLD)

If you go for an hour walk and look around you will see hundreds of things of note. So many that it doesn't even seem possible to comment on them all or reference them in paintings.  You look at something, and the image combines with another thought or sentiment running through your head, and the whole mood and meaning of what you are seeing changes. You look at the sky and note a motif....walk 10 paces forward, look again in a slightly different direction and something equally interesting presents itself,...and so it seems that very few things are actually noticed, and very few things are actually painted. There are a million more things to be done with landscape in painting.

New York Optimist

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Many thanks to John Sebastian for featuring my work in the current issue of the New York Optimist.

Kestrel Place

 ....on my usual walk to this field with a distant view....some new companions. 2 kestrels sound their territorial alarm when I come within a short distance of this place. They have been dive bombing me regularly, sometimes coming quite close....I can hear the air of their wings as they pull out of the dive at the last second. Acrylic and pencil on matte board gessoed both sides, 8 x 8 inches.

Whisper

...sometimes you sense something...rather than see it. Acrylic and pencil on matte board primed both sides, 8 x 8 inches.