Hi All! If interested, I’ll be posting occasional thoughts about my process and my work. One place that has inspired me in so many ways over the years is the island of Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. My connection to the Vineyard goes back three generations, beginning with weeks spent at my grandparents’ fishing cabin on Deep Bottom Cove in West Tisbury. No electricity, no running water, pure childhood bliss. It has become something of a cliche to talk about Vineyard light, but there is something very special about it–alluring, healing, and inspiring to all kinds of people, including artists. Many of us are compelled to capture the curl of early morning fog along the shore or a slash of sudden brightness across an up-island field at dusk. Maybe it’s not so much that the light is different but that the air is different, how the light moves through it, and how that makes us feel. It’s hard to explain in words what it is I am trying to do with paint other than to say I am trying to capture–through color, brushstroke, and palette knife–the way I have always felt when I am there.
Here is an example from a beautiful summer’s day at the Long Point Refuge in West Tisbury
