I’ve really gotten behind again with posting! After I moved my big show from the Hanover Library to the Lyme, NH library I decided I’d hang an “Everything but the Kitchen Sink” show in the Strafford Post Office. I had a couple of boxes full of small paintings I’d never shown–sketches, experiments, etc. So I pinned up 25 of those and have sold several. Getting it all organized took some time so I guess that’s my excuse for not blogging lately.
A few weeks ago I went with friends to a beautiful site in Strafford, with a pond and lovely gardens. I liked the greenhouse as well as the fall foliage in the background. The early light was beautiful but I was painting in the shade and nearly froze.
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Tomato Heaven oil on masonite 12×16″ $350 unframed
Cox’s Head oil on birch panel 18×24″ $700
After two very pleasant sessions at the beach in Maine I was ready to paint rocks. While we were eating lunch at a quaint little mini-farm I asked the only other diner where we could find some. He gave us complicated directions to places I think we never found, but on the way we discovered a lovely bluff, Cox’s Head. It was very windy but so isolated I thought nobody would come by to kibitz; I can’t stand to be interrupted when I’m in the zone painting. Anyhow, I thought it was a beautiful place, with the beginning of fall color, water and yes–lots of rocks. Two carloads of people actually did come by but nobody bothered me.
Connected Now oil on birch panel 18×24″ $700
Last month we made a quick trip to Maine, returning to Popham beach which we’d seen earlier in the summer when we were in Sebasco for a famiy gathering. This painting is of Fox Island. It was underwater when we first arrived but resurfaced the next morning at low tide. I had a wonderful time painting on the beach even though the wind was fierce and the sun was in my eyes.
