Art Blog - Art In History

The Winter Aconite are in bloom in my garden, edging out the Snowdrops, and a good week or two before we'll see crocuses. These spots of yellow are always the first, peeking through late snowdrifts, and foretelling the more insistent yellow of daffodils and forsythia. With the glories of goldenrod in late August and September, these are the yellows that frame our New England Summer season. In the old days, Spring always meant spring cleaning, in the house, yard and garden. As an artist who produces abundantly, it also means deciding which paintings do not make the cut and should be recycled. Since I paint on panels which store very efficiently if unframed, this is not a necessary process physically, but it seems to be very important to me psychologically… Continue reading… 1 comment

When we think of the Coat of Many Colors, whether Joseph's biblical coat or Dolly's country version, we think of a patchwork of bright, rainbow colors, intense and splashy. Most of us. When I think of the coat of many colors I think if nature's coat of subtle tones, colors so rich and intermixed that each is every color. Not that nature doesn't have its bright accents too, its pure blue sky and profusion of wildflowers, but for me, the real feast is in the shades of brown and grey. Brown is just a name for a profusion of color that is on balance warm; if the balance is cool, we call it grey. The richest colors in nature come in the Spring and fall, when no one color dominates… Continue reading… 2 comments