Self Portrait on My Birthday

 Well it seems the winter has disappeared and I have neglected my Blog! I do think of it all the time but have gotten into the habit of using instagram and so put my focus there...Not quite as satisfying as being able to write here how I really feel about the painting...This portrait was done with a landscape of my garden behind me, cheering me up in the dark winter of more Covid...I turned 70 this February....can you tell? I am happy to be alive considering what we have all been through! more shall be revealed... 20x24" oil on canvas

Sunset with Snow Alford MA

 The sunsets have been magnificent and a new challenge with the snowy ground. I seem to want to simplify the trees and stay focused on the shapes and colors, more to come, snow and paintings!....24x24" oil on canvas

Wood Pile at Jim and Julie's House Alford

 Well somehow I missed October? I have been very busy with life and painting....trying to avoid covid?....I spent several lovely summer days  focused on this great stack of logs....I saw them as very interesting shapes , sizes.and colors...fun to paint in the shade on a hot day...22x30" w/c gouache

Block Island Autumn Sunset

 A desolate view from our island home painted many years ago...and yet the same as today...having spent the last week on island painting and falling in love all over again...20x20 oil on canvas

Block Island Landscapes Changing Light at Jessie Edwards Gallery BI 7/31/20. -8/12/20

Here are some recent paintings of the Island....24x24 oil Sunset and Wiggle Trees.  24x30 Mansion Beach  Morning Light Incoming Ferry.  go to https://jessieedwardsgallery.com

My Corona Covid19 Experience

 Working in my studio , March April May, as the world spun into pandemic fear and suffering I decided to try and paint what might express my wonder and despair.....Here is the first "abstract" (ie I was not looking at anything) I have worked on  in many years....Really a virus is simply another part of the natural world...right? ...And how it affected me? Guess it felt like my idea of Hell (fear) and darkness....I just started putting paint scraped from my pallet with a knife onto  36x48 "300 lb Arche watercolor paper and this is what came out...The days seemed to just keep rolling along in quarantine unreality...I  kept painting....Still am, just for today

Dreaming of the Tropics as it Snows in April During the Pandemic

This chair caught my eye in the Caribbean Museum in Fredricksted St Croix USVI ....I painted it in my warm studio while it rained and snowed and the pandemic raged outside...A peaceful moment to remember a few weeks ago....24x36" oil on canvas

St Croix USVI Views Recent Past Weeks

 A stormy sunset in front of our beach cottage at Chenay Bay always entertaining....changing every minute....and the view from the kitchen window of the cottage next door ...I love the shadow of the palm tree on the white roof...well actually I love EVERYTHING I see down there mostly...Now back to REALITY??? So grateful for the peace of mind down there....9x12" watercolor and gouache on paper

Winter Outside, Warm Inside

In the cold of January and February I am very grateful to be looking out at the snow and stormy skies while I stand at my kitchen window warm and cozy also admiring the blooming red roses and other fun things on my window sill.....30x30" oil on canvas

SUMMER GARDENS WINTER FLOWERS 510 Warren St Gallery Hudson NY

All of the Flowers in My Garden 30x30" oil on canvas

Flower Pots in the Sunlight 36x36" oil on canvas

Here are some of the recent paintings of flowers from the summer months now exhibited at 

 510 WARREN ST GALLERY

HUDSON NY

January 31- February 23 2020 

OPENING RECEPTION

Saturday February 1 3-6pm

ALL WELCOME!!!!!

Manhattan Scene

                 This chair sits in my friend Claudia's bedroom in her apartment in NYC . I thought it was beautiful with the lovely conch shell sitting there in the light from the window and the rooftops in the distance, such a long way from its original home. Pink and green always turn me on....and so did all the angles of the walls and moldings, not to mention the shape of the chair and the wonderful upholstery....so there you have it...the last painting of this year. 24x30" oil on canvas

Alford Valley Late Autumn with Cows at Sunset

                I loved the sky and the shadows that the cows were casting over the still green grass in the late autumn light.  The leaves are gone and the hills  on theater side of the valley  are the color of bare trees. One lone Maple  in the foreground anchors the painting and the barbed wire fence holds all of that beauty together...or so I think..30x40" oil on canvas

Sheffield Garden Potted Plants in Summer

             A beautiful summer day in the garden at Ricky and Elizabeth's...Such wonderful plants and containers  sitting in the sun casting cool shadows all around on a warm day....I am very happy and grateful to be  painting  here... a fond memory now that the summer is past and these plants are indoors to be protected from the frost as am I....36x36" oil on canvas

September on Block Island 2019

        Walking north from Mansion Beach on Block Island, one comes upon this scene....I had noticed it in the summer and returned to paint it one early morning last week. The wind was formidable and the waves were breaking almost on me! Of course the ferry saved the day!
        This old house I have always loved...across the street from"painted rock"...There was a "soon to be wed" couple there , Dylan and Lily, painting the rock with their wedding date, Sept 21, also mine 45 years ago.  As I worked on this study , I wondered which was harder to do, the rock or the canvas? Mansion Beach Bluffs 24x30" oil on canvas    Little House at Painted Rock, 16x20" oil on canvas

Blue Chair with Still Life and Paintings

Well I just posted a repeat painting and had to remove it! So here is one that I have not posted before....I hope! I really like the paintings on  the floor behind the chair...Block Island and Provincetown studies....30x30 oil  on canvas

Recent Work at Jessie Edwards Gallery Block Island RI

  My most recent paintings of Block Island are being exhibited this week at Jessie's gallery....This scene is the view from our back yard on the west side of the island...wonderful sky...great feeling of space and freedom is what I get here...24x36 oil on canvas...Check out the rest of the show at www.jessieedwardsgallery.com.

June on Block Island

        June's a month that went by very quickly, but I did get out to the island. One incredible (still felt like Spring) morning standing in the middle of the most beautiful bunch of wild flowers I painted this view of the Springhouse Pond and Atlantic beyond. A memorable day for me...It will hang at Jessie Edwards Studio beginning this weekend, come have a look ?....20x30"oil on canvas

Springtime?

A jar of daffodils...what could be simpler? Little trumpets of Spring! 16x20" oil on canvas

Venice at Night in Hudson NY

                               Both of these paintings are truly reminiscent of what I saw in Venice Italy....not romanticized but what it was really like...to me...night time studies are fairly difficult but these work... they are both watercolor and gouache on 140lb hot pressed paper 22x30" come see them in person in Hudson at 510 Warren St Gallery this is the last weekend of the show...

April in Paris Venice and Sicily at 510 Warren St Gallery Hudson NY

I am having an exhibit at 510 Warren St Gallery in Hudson NY ....April 5-28  Opening reception Saturday April 6 3-6 pm ALL ARE WELCOME. !!!!!The painting at the top is A Garden in Toramina Sicily... The second one is a study of Inside a Gondola in Venice, and the third painting is of A Barge on The Seine in Paris ...All are 22x30" watercolor and gouache ...A wonderful way to bring in the SPRING!