When they came back this time, it was with a newly acquired second home in Florida with entirely empty walls. The couple that bought these three paintings loved my work when they saw it a few years ago, but had a home with full walls. I believe she was waiting for this perfect spot to be created. One of my sales from last fall with this same gallery was a a client who had been considering my work for quite a while. Other times their job transfers them to London-maybe we will see them again several years later when they are transferred back! Sometimes they are so busy that they can’t think straight. They google the artist and look for their track record and other galleries make sure that the prices are consistent with elsewhere go home and look at their space discuss which piece(s) they want and where they should go. But, people frequently don’t purchase artwork on the first occasion that they discover it, especially above a certain price point. This happens often enough that for the galleriest it can feel like the promises of return are a lot of hoo-ha, and sometimes they turn out to be. And then they may drop from sight for a while-weeks, months, years-or forever. There are frequently folks who come and fall in love with an artist or two and admire every single painting and then leave to have lunch and think about it or go home to measure or only one spouse is present and needs to consult with the other.

It starts with the gallery being open day after day, during which time often there are no sales at all. This sequence of events may seem lightning-fast, serendipitous, almost magical in its precision. Update to the vaccine conversation: I got my first dose last Sunday, booked for me by a friend.

While hope is huge…we also have fear, anticipation, the blues, gratitude, stress, loving kindness, loneliness, generosity, and enormous sorrow and loss. Echoing within the isolation that I feared, our emotions are all over the place. We are back in the world community, back in the climate change conversation, back to consulting with our allies…no longer a rogue nation. We have hope! This has hinged almost entirely on the election results, without which we would not have the essential piece-a vaccine rollout that while imperfect, has the attention and determination of the new administration behind it. I worried about all of the new deaths that were coming…and have come.īut instead of all bad news, we have so many things in sight. I worried about my fellow Americans and election results and my fellow humans worldwide and isolation and Covid fatigue and those who are/were suffering already. Last summer I was fearful that this winter would bring crippling depression to many people. ( When I try it again I might want to make it a more assertive feature, like my headlights generally are.) I had long wanted to do a contrail in a blue sky, and found that in this image it creates a nice graphic without being overly intrusive. I began each workshop with a short video of water, and was delighted to find that I had a short clip from the actual day. The first is an image of Menemsha on Martha’s Vineyard on a summer day. In January and February I completed two demo pieces while teaching from-the-heart landscape painting workshops online for the Woodstock School of Art. To hear more, sign up for the demo and/or my upcoming color workshop with the Woodstock School of Art: I will be using a Vasari paint set that I purchased as a kind of research project about paint quality and pigments, something I get asked about frequently in my color-mixing workshops.

The image for the painting will be a salt marsh in late summer color, 22″x28″. I am thinking that this could be of interest to friends and collectors as well as my students. While I have fond memories of a demo in my studio one fall several years back with an appreciative small crowd, warm conversation, some tasty snacks and a bit of bubbly…this will do for now. In the something new category, I will be doing a three-hour livestreamed painting demo on March 25th. I am scheduled for a show at Rice Polak from July 22-August 4, and there will be ample work at the gallery through 2021. Link to my page on the gallery website, still in progress:

Minimalist abstract landscape painting