Tag Archives: art career
Jack of all trades
Driving to Damariscotta
There are three winter formations that I love and was hoping to paint this year. The frozen seeps on rocky escarpments are groundwater’s motion suspended and exaggerated. The cracked sheets of thick ice in tidal marshes are the tide’s motion caught in time. And the thin sheets of ice that form on the edges of […]
Keeping track
Anyone who shows regularly needs some sort of inventory system. I use a simple spreadsheet built in Excel. In the first column, I paste a small thumbnail of the painting, because I can recognize work visually faster than I can by name. This is followed by its title, its physical location at the moment and […]
Start as you mean to go on
I done this thing (almost)
I wish I’d thought of that
We often hear, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” That is true in the art world, but it’s also true that it’s who you are or—more specifically—who people think you are. A recent story in the Telegraph confirms that idea. Fifteen years ago, Alexandre Ouairy was just another unknown European living in boomtown […]
Joy versus happiness
My mother had a garden of several acres. Being sent out to weed a single row seemed like a life sentence. The plants stretched out to eternity. Knowing I wasn’t free until it was done was the worst feeling in the world. That was before my brother and sister died in separate accidents four years apart. Then […]
Living sculpture
Back in the day, I was a pretty serious gardener. I led a garden group at a large suburban church and cared for my own plants. My schedule during the past few years has nixed that. In many ways gardening is exactly like painting. All the same skills, just different materials. My favorite garden task is […]