December

Senior capstone complete, the gallery show went up without a hitch, and was a resounding success. Some highlights: the placement of Geography series in the lobby- it had a perfect site and the light is impecable. It should really be a permanent fixture there. There's this let down once all the frenzy of it has stopped. Trying to fill it with a new painting, working further with the mapping series, this one a 3D graph GIS info. Quite a departure for me, and unnerving. Also getting heavy into grad school applications- mass/Dartmouth tops the list, along with MECA, VCFA, UNH and Mass/ Art. We shall see. Where life will take its next big hop. Meanwhile...a few more gifts to wrap, cookies could be baked (and eaten), and all that. Happy Holiday.

Geography- Lord Hall Gallery
Summer 2010

a departure from my usual work.....I like the way the Dying Slave (Michelangelo) works with the iconic monk from the 60's

Studies of Verity

Banor Artwalk

friday the 18th, a very successful evening, showing new work, and meeting other artists and art enthusiasts. Thanks to everyone who came out- Good luck to Ed Nadeau on hos solo show in Ellsworth!

recent work

acrylic and caran d ache on Lenox

series

what if my series of three paintings for an exhibit ends up being three totally unrelated paintings?

garden

summer garden

BDNEWS

Just got word that the article on Spao et Ageiro will be in Thursday's paper. Scouting out possible locations to move the installation in Philly.

sultry. was going to do an encaustic, but perhaps its way too hot for it...would be too sticky...hell, my brain's too sticky. Good day for beach if I hadn't been marathon driving every day now for a week.

Started second canvas in series. Took a ride down to Brunswick, stopped for a gesso run. Difficult to obtain any decent art supplies here in the Northwoods of Maine. Frustrating sometimes. Will be casting the hypertufa molds tomorrow; some of the moss paint is working, but not consistently enough. Hard to divide time between garden and studio...I confess the garden wins these days alot, but the season is so short up here one must be out in it as much as possible. It is where so much of the inspiration, the color, the texture comes from.

July 2,2010
About halfway through a new painting, large canvas done in acrylic and caran d ache. a take on a cell formation, part of a "flesh and bone " series. I am also experimenting with moss spores as a painting material. So far have a birch panel"painted", and in the growth process. This could be really awesome, could be a total waste of buttermilk. 2 a.m., can't sleep, and am hoping for the beach later today, though on a summer holiday weekend in Maine, it could be chaos. Warm, sandy chaos.