Living the Wild Life

The work of wildlfie painter Hayley Johnson was recently the subject of a one-person show at New Hampshire’s Rochester Museum of Art. The paintings in “Anchors in Memory,” were large, colorful stylizations of critters including foxes, [...]

By |2025-12-10T11:41:15-05:00December 10th, 2025|

How to Paint Loose

Howard Friedland, “Virgina Falls Revisited” (detail). Friedland, whose method is not that different from Charles Hawthorne’s vibrant "spots of color" approach, has a video on painting waterfalls. "Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what [...]

By |2025-12-03T10:56:56-05:00December 3rd, 2025|

Compose Yourself!

In 1883 Winslow Homer moved to the small coastal village of Prouts Neck, Maine, where he created a series of paintings of the sea unparalleled in American art, says the Art Institute of Chicago, which [...]

By |2025-12-01T09:37:25-05:00December 1st, 2025|

‘Only the Spirit and Splendor’

“In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit and give us only the spirit and splendor.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Donald Demers, [...]

By |2025-11-28T11:10:13-05:00November 28th, 2025|
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