From its earliest exploration by colonial settlers, the region of the Adirondack Mountains has beguiled artists lured by the prospect of nature in its purest form.

The late Wolf Kahn made some of America's most striking paintings combining landscape and colorfield approaches.

The sources of our own creativity are so organic and so close to us we often ignore or don't even notice when they knock.

The Hudson River painters sketched outdoors constantly, and they considered their plein air work rather like notes for larger paintings than finished work. From a contemporary plein-air perspective, you could say that what they gained in grand, cinematic depictions of composite scenery they lost in spontaneity, freshness, and immediacy.

Vermeer stands out because he put impeccable technique at the service of a timeless humanism you must read his paintings carefully to enjoy. 

Without strong design, you're wrecking your paintings without realizing it.

Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) broke into the boy’s club of macho mid-century Jackson Pollock-style Abstract Expressionism (AbEx for short), but she’s still not as widely known as her peers. 

Passion is what we chase in art and creativity. Art shakes us by the shoulders and says: LOOK!