First off- Show at
Carteret Contemporary Art, Morehead City, NC from June 15- July 4 2013. I'm showing with the incredible Kevin Aita. Opening from 6-8pm tomorrow night. I have around 15 peices in there, mostly studio work from the winter and early spring.
Painting has been my second job after keeping a wonderful son during the day. Thank goodness for my wife and in laws for helping out an incredible amount with the kids to allow me more time to work. I am back in the studio almost full time again, thanks to Nanna and Boppy, through the Summer. I'll be on the Beaufort Home Tour route again this year, the last weekend in June. Here are some of the paintings that will be in the show starting tomorrow.
This is one 18 x24" I started with Mike Rooney one windy day in the spring "Down East". The wind beat us for an hour and a half, till we packed it in. I hadn't been able to get out in more than a month, and the rust definitely showed. But I soldiered on for more hours on this one in the studio, hoping to retain the seed planted while out. Hope to post the before and after to show difference sometime.
Portsmouth Homestead 11x14"
Portsmouth Post Office 9x12"
Core Banks CARcass 24x36"
Shed with a view, Portsmouth 18x24"
Turns out there is quite a small collection of paintings I did from a trip out to
Portsmouth Island last Spring with my friend and captain/navigator/guide Joey Smith. This collection of paintings are quite a bit more textural than what I had traditionally been doing, due to the process I had to adopt, and the fact I consciously wanted to show the physicality of the paint. I have only been able to paint in small chunks of time which would mean continuous drying and reworking of layers, sometimes putting a painting away for weeks before getting back to it. I also dropped all earths colors, and went with the standard warm/cool primary palette. It has been a fun exercise and am interested to see what the reception to these will be.
