We're having lovely mornings like these now with a newly-warm sun and hazy yellowed light. On a smaller gardener's scale I'm doing the same May morning work of planting and mulching (playing hookey from my studio every now and then is a necessary guilty pleasure if I'm going to be picking tomatoes this August.)
The barnyards of hard-working farmers can be messy, piled high with half-finished projects, broken equipment, and the occasional stray animal (also an apt description of the studios of many hard-working artists.)
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My visual journal is inspired by what I see every day: the weather on my hill in northern Vermont, what’s growing in my garden, a curio brought back from travels or an ordinary object from the kitchen shelf made special by careful looking. "Journal" paintings are fast, improvised daily entries, a chance to experiment with new approaches and pay attention to the here-and-now. When I’m traveling, quickly recorded impressions are posted from Paris, Provence, Spain, Maine and anywhere else I’ll find myself this year. My large studio compositions take time, planning, refining of the original inspiration. I'll also be sharing that different kind of creative process with you here on "A Painter's Year".