"Hurricane Hermine", oil.
“Stroking it’s blue shore/throughout the night, patient, patient,”
– Denise Levertov, from ‘The sea’s repeated gesture.’
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Eat A Peach
"Eat A Peach", oil, 5 x 7"
sold
“I make a home for myself in my work, yet when I enter
that home I know how flimsy a shelter I have wrought for my spirit.”– Anne
Truitt
Listening to Antrese Wood interview Kathleen Speranza
on her fantastic podcast The Savvy Painter, I’m struck by Kathleen’s inspiring honesty
about her approach to painting, her love of the qualities, forms and ephemeral
beauty of her subjects, her love of the language of painting, the discerning advantages
of aging. As I listen, this peach challenges
me to capture the way light melts into its fuzzy surface, its leaves turn and taunt,
the old, chalky green milk paint on the wooden crate opposes the living green
of the peach leaves. As I struggle to
communicate these textures, Antrese and Kathleen talk about being allowed to
paint whatever subject you want and really, most especially, the satisfaction
of being able to do so.
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