Meditations On Painting the Southern Coastal Landscape
It’s a beautiful Friday afternoon. I am watching the sun throw shadows across the marsh. Everything is bathed in its warm light including the few clouds moving to the east. It makes me so sleepy and relaxed. Our two dogs hold down opposite ends of the couch, curled up sleeping. The squirrels are running and […]
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The squirrels are busy this morning. Running and jumping through the tree limbs beside the porch as if auditioning for the circus. Tybee, my dog, and I are wondering what they know that we do not. She is as upset by their activity, as she is intrigued. The crashing sound is amazingly loud for critters […]
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“The work of belonging to a place is never finished” Scott Russell Sanders It’s so easy to fall in love with summer. Summer is gloriously seductive… full of bright sunshine that sizzles on your skin, warm breezes that wrap themselves around you, dazzling blue skies, big puffy white clouds and bright green grasses. Everything in […]
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I write a lot about my mom. She occupies a big space in my life now. It’s as if we have returned to childhood, the time when your parents are the biggest people in your life, but this time with a twist. She needs me now as I needed her as a child. But today […]
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A large part of being a landscape painter and especially a plein air painter is embracing what is around you, as it, in turn embraces you. It is a series of actions and reactions. And of observations, both the broad kind and the nuanced kind. The ability to be flexible in your approach and change […]
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Capturing Life in Paint 