Artwork and essays
PIER, oil on canvas, 30×40 GREETINGS on Super Sunday! Today, the second of back-to-back-to-back holidays, our national, secular religion celebrates its greatest day, appropriately on the Sabbath, its gravitas enshrined in Continue reading
MILL RIVER WATERSHED, oil on canvas, 14×11 THE MILL RIVER in Hatfield is ancient, meandering, and slow. Its watershed is dense, overgrown: centuries-old tree trunks lying cockeyed at odd intervals and Continue reading
I WALK briskly through town to get warm on a December morning en route to the dike bordering the Connecticut River, mind racing. Mostly I walk fast for the sheer joy Continue reading
THERE’S NO RHYME OR REASON when it comes to pricing a painting. I’ve consulted with numerous artists over the years, and there is no one-size-fits-all method of determining a painting’s value. Continue reading
WE NEED ART MORE THAN EVER during a national crisis. Great art, and lots of it. We need art for beauty’s sake; for escape and comfort; to be provoked and Continue reading
