The heat wave that’s happening as I write is influencing my art in a number of ways. I’m not outdoors in the yard making an oversize stain painting or working on a sculpture for Maudslay State Park as are my recent annual August habits. Instead, I’m indoors busily recycling paintings and painting fresh, in order to produce more vases like the one I improvised for a special exhibit in Rockport this spring. Whether displayed as a sculpture or placed on a table, I’ve found that I jut love getting such a close-up view of brush strokes and colors and lines combining.
As I look out from my screen porch where this spring’s glorious blooms have given way to drought, I hope the thirteen shrubs and trees I had planted to replace trees lost to winter moths all make it. I think about how much I appreciate folks like the Backyard Growers, Black Earth Compost, and the producers of the documentary, “Kiss the Ground,” who showed how we could cool our planet by turning the Earth’s millions of acres of dust bowl into vibrant green. And that’s the reason why my newest environmental paintings aren’t the blue of melting ice, or the red of fire, but are gloriously, optimistically, going green.
I’d be delighted to share these and other new works by appointment or during the Cape Ann Artisans Fall Studio Tour on October 8th and 9th. In the meantime, I invite you to “Intersect,” the 2022 Outdoor Sculpture Show at Maudslay from Sept.10th – to Oct. 2nd, 2022 in Newburyport. My “Tangled Intersection,” made from wire, wood and paint, will be one of fifty sculptures dotting the landscape there.
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