Tea and Indian Mango

All fruit is beautiful, but mangoes have special color, the outside a blending of violet red to chartreuse, inside a clean butter yellow, with a little bit of marigold mixed in.

Night Ride (detail)

One of four panels in a painting I'm working on inspired by small towns, roads and dusk.

Oranges and Blue Napkin

Here are two paintings from previous postings that I realized today make an interesting diptych. I like the way the images relate in color and shape, but are also fractured.

Driving West, Dusk

On my way home from Maine, heading through one of those small towns that aren't much more than an intersection.

Sliced Mangoes

A few years ago James and I had dinner in Paris at a Vietnamese restaurant. The owner offered us his best dessert, flown in from Vietnam at their peak of ripeness and for that one week the most delicious mangoes in the world.

Memory: Morning Market, Provence

The farmer's market in Montpelier, Vermont would require a very different palette (heavy on the neutrals and greens) than the wide spectrum of colors needed to paint a fabric stall in Montpelier, France--a display that would look garish rather than vivid in our northern light.

Memory: Paris, Spring Morning

Looking up the Seine towards the Pantheon in that silvery April light.