Meditations On Painting the Southern Coastal Landscape
“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in […]
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“And every year there is a brief, startling moment When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air: It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies; It is the changing light of fall falling on us.” ― Edward […]
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“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ― Maya Angelou As I stood there painting my favorite little scrappy palm tree, I was thinking about courage in the face of storms. Literarily, as in the storm that was moving toward me offshore, causing my […]
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“looking north” 8″ x 10″ oil on panel – SOLD Someone asked me yesterday how I choose where to paint… after all a marsh is just a marsh, right? For me, it is always about orienting myself towards the best light. Sometimes, the clouds are better, sometimes it’s the glow on the horizon, sometimes I […]
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Capturing Life in Paint 