Inspiration
Of course it all starts with experiencing and appreciating the natural world with the ever changing light, shadow, colors of night and day. Favorite locations visited: hiking in the Lakes District in southwest England, the dry creek canyons of Sedona, Arizona, and the mountains of Acadia National Park, Maine.
While at our cabin in the Burnt Meadow Mountains in southwestern Maine, as well as at our home in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, I’m always provided with new opportunities to photograph and paint.
"The Stacks at Giverny"
Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926), the founder of French Impressionist painting, was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
"The Blue Boat"
Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 - September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects and landscapes of New England and the Caribbean. This scene in particular I love, for it reminds me of canoeing in Maine, with just the sounds of calling loons and the cacophony of spring peepers.
" A Woodworker's Musings"
Carl Larsson (May 28, 1853 - January 1919) was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes.