It’s that time of year again and oh how those brushes have been flying !
The Granary Gallery Show is almost here…
The Opening is July 31, 5-7pm
I will be rolling out the new paintings here on the blog beginning next week, but the one featured above is a sneak peak at one of my favorites…
I’m calling this, Swan Song – An Abstract Chilmark Aria
I’ve gotten the approval of the dear diva herself, Skip Peterson, to show this now to the world. She modeled for me last October. Among her many talents and gifts, Skip is a painter, and among her many requests and suggestions for how I should capture her portrait, she thought it would be sorta fun to have an actual painting of hers in it.
Locating it some place in Chilmark was a must… as it is for her, like so many others, a treasured place held dearly in her soul…and when I took her to my sacred place, Camp Sunrise, she fell in love instantly.
We knew, when I painted this that the house was slated for demolition. And I had been meaning to capture it from this angle because the meadow in the foreground is where they were planning, and now have built, the new home. When, back in my mid-winter studio, I needed something to carry the energy of Skip’s song, I chose those wonderful swans which were soaring on their way to nearby Squibnocket pond.
But it wasn’t until a few months later, when someone sent me a photo of the empty horizon…when it became sadly real to me that the house was finally gone…that the title came to me.
It usually takes me a while to look back and see the workings of the muses.
With this painting, on so many levels, they have been leading me here for a lifetime.