The Studio
Over the past 25 years I have relocated several times and each time I've improved on my studio space. Currently my easel is in one corner of my open loft apartment in Newbury VT (which is by the way a great place for painters). I'm enjoying having the longer distance to move back away from my painting...over 20 feet! ..which enables me to better examine it's overall composition. There's a great view of the pines and nearby mountains out the window offering a pleasant and quiet distraction.
Sometimes I take my 'studio' outside as it is necessary to observe nature directly, to sit on a cold rock and find a new vantage point or perspective, where I can draw or watercolor from. While I've experienced transporting oils and canvas and creating a make shift easel as I backpack in the mountains, I find that I have a greater interest in studying composition than assessing the effects of the changing light on the landscape (though shadows are infinitely interesting to me). I stop to draw and take many photographs for reference, and contemplate the scenery. It's more the mental impression and the awareness that I take back to the studio from which I 'realize' my paintings (see "Cezanne and Modernism: The Poetics of Painting" by Joyce Medina, p.110, Chap.IV.. 'the realization of motifs').
Presently I've been giving much consideration to abstract ideas, both in and out of the studio. I feel that a broader examination of the elements of design (eg. Eugene Larkin, "Design: The search for Unity" 1987.) encourages an emotional response and an organization of thought that is imperative to the substance of a painting.
Here in this new place, in VT, this is where the Studio becomes the vehicle, like one's car, for taking you wherever you want to go. And there are so many roads here. So to my artist friends, keep your Studio tuned and running clean!
THE STUDIO is located at 4826 Main St., Apt. 3, Newbury, PA 05051
Appointments by phone: 802-243-1039
Open Studios for 2018 T.B.A.
Appointments by phone: 802-243-1039
Open Studios for 2018 T.B.A.
BLACK MOUNTAIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE (just across the river!)
