Bosc Pear on Phoenix Bird Cup

Bosc Pear on Phoenix Bird Cup, 5 x 7", oil

Accepted, Philadelphia Sketch Club 154th  Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings.

“After we have finished here

The world will continue its quiet turning.” 

-          Billy Collins, from the poem “While Eating A Pear”

Silver Creamer with Concord Grapes

Oil on Ampersand gessobord, 5 x 7"

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For Arielle and Maura

My daughters’ small 

determined hands 

reach through bramble and 

twisted vine 

to pull whole bunches 

of dusty purple

Concord grapes free 

from the wildness of it.

Itchy arms speckled with tiny cuts, 

squatting 

in chickweed and dandelion with 

dirty faces and shining hair 

to eat wild foraged fruit 

in the summer sun.  

Silver reflects and contains, 

holds and pours, 

remembers. 

-Sharon Egan

Eat A Peach

"Eat A Peach", oil, 5 x 7"

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“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.