
Above photo credit: Jaylyn McFadden



My studio is the former taproom in an 1830s brick house in rural Vermont.
But my favorite studio is under the sky where I get started on most of my paintings. The French call this en plein air, meaning in the open air. My brother gave me an old easel and it accompanies me around the back roads and hillsides near my home. In 2022 I started painting from the bed of our old pickup truck (I saw the Irish artist Elizabeth Cope doing this on the pages of Faire magazine and had to try it). I spend the winter months finishing my summer paintings, and creating dreamscapes that are composites of the places I’ve been fortunate to go. I work in slow-dry acrylics by Golden Paints and use wide hardware store brushes and Rosemary artist brushes. Just love them!
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From my journal
Summer’s Eve Wedding
An early summer evening after heavy rain. The perfect night for vows to be shared, poems read, music heard. The scene: a renovated barn and its lush wooded grounds in rural Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The wedding cake was whoopie pies. The feast specialized in...
The Reveal
I spent the winter and spring on a labor of love which came into bloom a few weeks ago at the wedding of my brother-in-law Daryl, to the marvelous Deborah. Remember all those ruffles I was making in April? They turned into flowers. Dozens of raw silk...
Welcome Summer
In six months the sun will be setting at 4 pm and I'll be longing for this day. The first day of summer dawned with the promise of intense heat. There was barely dew on the grass when we went out to eat breakfast in the garden. The lambs got busy grazing,...
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See Original Art Here
- Flower Festival Exhibit, Artistree Gallery, Pomfret, Vermont, through August 17
- Royalton Memorial Library, South Royalton, Vermont through mid August
- Bank Street Gallery, AVA, Lebanon (New Hampshire) ongoing
- First Branch Coffee (Vermont) ongoing
- In my home studio by appointment
Where I'm Teaching...
- Fall Classes and Workshops open for registration. More details here.