Part of an ongoing project of painting on location Milwaukee’s historic architecture as subject. What interests me in painting architecture interiors and exteriors of primarily historic buildings? Most of the following ideas are not present in the paintings themselves, but are implied in the structure of the house and the objects it contains. There are […]
I started this little manifesto when I was working on my artist’s statement for the recent Mary Nohl Fellowship application. I don’t think I’m alone in finding writing artist’s statements to be an onerous undertaking. The manifesto is not the statement that I ended up using, but it did help. Painting is a refuge from […]
This past May, Chris and I had the good fortune to spend an inspiring week in the C-Scape Dune Shack, part of the Dune Shacks of the Peaked Hill Bars Historic District located within the Cape Cod National Seashore. I made two paintings and Chris drew in his sketchbook. First painting: C-Scape Dune Shack, oil […]