Holding

I am excited to join the blogging community with Adventures in Still Life, my inaugural blog! Here is a photo of a painting I completed recently. It is part of a Block Series that I started work on during spring of this year. I loved the idea of painting stacks of blocks inspired by my young daughter's creations. She was still an infant at the time and I was doing more of the stacking than she was - desperate for entertainment! - but now she contributes her own designs, as well. Most of my Block Series paintings involve both studio setups and imaginative additions. I am exploring memory in my paintings, and I have found it instructive to spend time studying a still life during a painting session as well as between sessions: sometimes painting from life, other times from recollection. This approach works well with my gestured style of rendering objects and space.

This painting is called Holding (Block Series), oil/canvas 24" x 18" and is on display at the Associated Artists of Winston-Salem gallery in downtown Winston-Salem, NC until January 2nd. Please see their website for more information about their exhibitions and programs.