Four Bowls (detail)

This is, I think, the last bowl in the multi-panel piece I'm working on here at the Vermont Studio Center. I'll post the entire image when I'm finished.

Pitcher, Apple and Orange

Same cast of characters on a sunnier day.

Milk Pitcher and Tangerine

Somehow cadmium orange next to cobalt blue is an antidote for sleet outside and an indoors funk.

Green Door

The classic farmhouse with a twist.

Changing Weather

I painted this yesterday morning, then packed art supplies and coffee pot and drove up to Johnson for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center ( a working retreat for artists with meals, studio and monkish bedroom provided.) My goal for the next two weeks is to finish four paintings from the “Places/Possessions” series, plan the next, and keep up with my visual diary. It’s true, I have a fine studio at home where I can paint full time, but here I can be away from daily routine, inhabit a new work space, get some distance from familiarity, and share with other artists a community of solitude.