Reception this Sunday

37 Lexington Rd.
Concord, MA USA

978-369-2578

http://concordart.org/

hours:
Tuesday-Saturday 10a.m.- 4p.m.
Sunday noon- 4p.m.

Black Friday. Seeing Red?

Night Pool
2012
6x7
encaustic monotype











Hopefully you did not blow your entire gift budget at the malls, superstores, and soulless chains yesterday!
That sort of shopping can leave you feeling empty and confused, like eating cotton candy and calling it dinner.

Wherever you are, if you need a special gift this season, go to your local gallery or arts cooperative and buy an original piece of art.  It is a great feeling!

This year I will have "small works" for sale in Concord, Massachusetts at the Concord Art Association as well as the Freedom Trails Gallery in Amherst, Massachusetts.
I also have a selection of paintings available at Surroundings Gallery in Gardner, Massachusetts.

Information on openings to follow.

work in progress

oil with cold wax medium on panel


This is still evolving.
I was just anxious to get a new image up.

I guess that means I had better get busy painting!

This time of year, everything else seems to take precedence..... sigh.

This Weekend, GALA Event

Gardner Area League of Artists GALA
Fall Art Show
November 16-18, 2012

Gardner Senior Center
294 Pleasant St., Gardner, MA

Friday 6-9:30 p.m.
Opening Reception
with
Live Music & Refreshments
Awards, 7 p.m.

Saturday 11a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday Noon-4 p.m.



This is an open, community art show that celebrates the wide range of work being done in Gardner and the many small, surrounding towns of Central Massachusetts.  This is the most unassuming, warm and welcoming groups of artists and art appreciators you will ever find.  Admission is free.

more information at

http://galagardner.org/

978-630-2340

The Impermanence of Objects (Chair/Chalice)
2012
12x12
oil

Artists,  physicists, mystics, and crazies are all suspicious of the boundaries that appear to divide this from that.
Chair? Chalice? No matter, matter.  Energy.

Long-term Relationship

2012
40x30
oil












I have been working on this painting, on and off, for two years.
On at least one other occasion, I thought it was completed.
I even framed it and submitted it to a show (rejected).
This time, I was too lazy to take it out of the frame, a black float frame, and just worked on it in that state.
So, with that history, I am reluctant to say it is finished.
Some time this week I will try to get a better photo, I was just chomping at the bit to get something new up on the blog.

A New Landscape

Landscape with Marsh
2012
8x10
oil










Earlier this fall I went out painting in Uxbridge, MA with a group of friends.
This was the first of two paintings I did.  At first it was quite tight, so back at the studio I reworked it.
I liked it better, but it still didn't sit right with me.
The other day I realized what it needed was cropping, and had it been a work on paper, that is exactly what I would have done.
Chop, chop!
Instead, I painted out sections with a deep brown.  For the folks who like to see things literally, it might look like I am looking through a porch, but it is really, it is just my way of organizing space.
That is part of the really gratifying thing about painting to me; I get to say, "This is how I choose to present things" and I don't feel I need any further rationalization.

Go Vote

Silenced
2012
12x12
oil











I'm an artist, not an activist (though I know talented, smart people who are both), so it is with trepidation that I wade into this realm.

I know it is easy to be cynical.  Still, go vote.
I know it can feel like you are not being heard, not being represented.  Still, go vote.
Don't be silenced.  Go vote.

As for the painting, it is not finished yet, but it is moving in the direction I want.