Watercolor
Watercolors for me are a meditation which involves intense looking and feeling. I use watercolors in a non-traditional way, sometimes thick, oftentimes wiping out and blotting. I let the water pool, I let the drying show. Sky comes down, a color radiates, a form knocks against another form. To me, the watercolors are very specific renderings. Oftentimes as I’m painting I’m thinking words such as “the sky comes down HERE, and the yellow is small like THIS.” I use paper towel, I use my fingers. I use very few colors, mixing my own greens, grays, and earth tones. Sometimes you can tell what I’m looking at or remembering, sometimes you can’t. What matters is the leap to really look, to be open, to see and to feel, and to allow that to come through in the paint, water, and paper.
Nice review by Karen Wilkin of summer 2023 exhibit at Pamela Salisbury Gallery in The Hudson Review. Click HERE. Some of these watercolors are still available.
Ongoing: The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA, selection of watercolors available.
Winter 2023 “4th Annual All Small” group exhibit Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
July 29 - August 27 2023 Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY, selection of oil paintings and watercolors Printed catalog with essay by novelist Jane Mendelsohn available for sale through the gallery.
July 29 2023 Wings Over Haiti community benefit for Haiti, Bridgehampton, NY
April 2023 Works on Paper (group exhibit organized by FolioEast) Ashawag Hall, East Hampton, NY
January 27 - April 16 2022 “Informing Memory: Process, Place, and Notion” (group exhibit) at Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter NH
May 2021 Issue #5 Speculative Nonfiction: Hold
June - July 2020 Solo exhibit at Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson NY
