This summer I’ve been traveling by boat up and down the Annisquam River to paint areas that I love: the small unnamed island that I “discovered” and claimed as my own when I was 6, the special blue green color of the water at Wingaersheek at high tide, and unspoiled Merchant’s Island with its cottages that have not changed since the turn of the century. I also have been painting some of the fish class cat boats that have been built at my family’s boatyard since 1921.
The challenge is to take these things that I love and which have always been around me and to make an artistic statement about them and not simply to illustrate what I see. Of course a painting from a tippy skiff is not the easiest thing to do either.
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