See all of my Brook Run paintings in

Available...Views of a Field Whose Days are Numbered
at
Crossroads Art Center
2016 Staples Mill Road
(804) 278-8950
opening Friday, July 17, 2009 6-9 p.m.
through September 8

It began as a fascination with the color of the tall grasses, and how they changed with the seasons, the light, and the weather. A sale sign went up, and part of the field was plowed under. Construction began. A second sign announced that the rest of the field was "available".
Tick tock, tick tock....


View paintings, 6 or 8 to a page, grouped by size and in order of display, as .pdf files. Also access gallery guide:
page 1 (14"x18"), page 2 (14"x18"), page 3 (14"x18" and 36"x36"), page 4 (5"x7"), page 5 (5"x7"), page 6 (5"x7"),
gallery guide
Alone in the Rain, 36x36, oil on canvas
wall, 14x18 paintings, oil on canvas
   
 
Small 5"x7" paintings on MDF panel being set up on wall
 
See a paintings in progress

For the past five years I have recorded (in photography and paint) seasonal, even hourly changes in a small field off of Brook Road. This is just north of the Brook Run trenches and fortifications that were built (1862-1864) as part of the outer defenses that circled Richmond north of the James River.

The history was not why I became interested in the field; it was the changing colors of the wild grasses, and the expansive sky. Purely aesthetic and emotional reasons. But as it shrank with development, I became more and more connected with it, to get that "one last view" before it was plowed under. A sale sign went up, and a retirement home was built at the north end of the field. A new sale sign (“Available”) went up at the other end. My work took on a new urgency as I painted in the sun, in the rain, in my studio, and sitting in my car.

My one-person show chronicles this field as Time and Man have left their mark on it.


This page updated October 20, 2010

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