Studio Insiders Blog — White Mountain art
Cairns: Stacks of Paintings of Stacks of Rocks
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Read all about my latest series of paintings, all about cairns - stacks of rocks marking high mountain trails!
What's on for February? So. Many. Things.
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Two new gallery shows and a workshop. All this months!
So much for a quiet start to the year! New work, new shows, and a lot of painting.
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So much for a quiet start to the year! The easel is full. While I wasn't expecting to be in any exhibitions for the beginning of the year, now I'm in two. When it rains, it pours.
Great Routes in the White Mountains: Ammonoosuc Ravine to Mount Washington and down the Jewell Trail
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The hiking season is in full swing, but it was only the weekend of June 16, just days before the summer solstice, that I got out on the trails for the first time! Horrors! Fortunately I was invited on a work trip to help guide a fantastic group of hikers to Lakes of the Clouds Hut on Mount Washington in the beautiful White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire, so off I went!
Stormy Weather: On Clouds and Painting
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It’s easy to admire a perfectly cloudless day on a mountain summit. It means we rarely consider our fears about coldness, damp, or the possibility of getting lost. In summer daylight runs long. There’s a swimming hole down the trail once we’re back in the hot, humid air of the trees. Perhaps there’s a cold beer at day’s end. We love these days because they are uncomplicated. Climbing the mountain was made less strenuous by the absence of clouds. Though I love this type of day, especially when traversing a long, exposed range of mountains; in my paintings I gravitate...