Bear Meeting House

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." - Edith Sitwell


This painting is 9" x 12" oil on hardboard. When I told my neighbor I'd paint his house I had two paintings in mind and this is the second one. This piece is part of the Winter Show at Crystal Moll Gallery, starting February 16th.

I'd also like to share some recognition I received on Friday. I was chosen for an honorable mention for the Delaware Division of the Arts 2012 Fellowship program. This is quite a feat for this very competitive award!


Sunset at Salem

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

I want to wish everyone a very happy holiday, whichever one you celebrate (or even none at all!) 

Quiet Time

"When fortune calls, offer her a chair" - Yiddish Proverb

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Morning Poetry

 "The poetry of the earth is never dead." - John Keats

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel.

Tall Grass

 "A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long." - Sloan Wilson

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Sweet Sky

 "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."  - Rabindranath Tagore

In the Sun

 "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This painting is 12" x 9" oil on hardboard. This is a commissioned painting of my neighbor's house so it is not for sale. His house was built 100 years ago and he thought it would be cool to have for the upcoming anniversary. When it was built it was used as a general store, school house (check out that bell!) and a meeting house.

November Sunset

 "Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."   - Elizabeth Bowen

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Fresh Start

"With each sunrise, we start anew." - Unknown

This painting is 5" x 7" oil on canvas board. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Welcoming Door

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." - Emily Dickinson

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Audience

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." - Thomas Jefferson

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Topiary

 "A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows." -Doug Larson

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas board. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Early Morning Boardwalk

"On the beach, you can live in bliss." - Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas board.

The Clubhouse

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward

This is the Pennsylvania Railroad Workers' private clubhouse, located on the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk. The clubhouse, built in the 1920s, was created so that the railroad workers had a way to spend time with their families in a vacation setting.

This painting is 5" x 7" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting or purchase notecards of this painting.

Sweet Sunrise

"We can travel a long way and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. It is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home." - Sharon Salzberg

This painting of the sun starting it's journey over the Dolle's Salt Water Taffy sign in Rehoboth Beach, DE is 8" x 6" oil on canvas board. 

Working Early

"To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."  - George Kneller

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Stepping Up

"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep." - Paul Strand

This painting is 5" x 7" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Chair City Morning

 "You can only come to the morning through the shadows."  - J.R.R. Tolkien

This painting is from recent trip I made to Gardner, MA and is 7" x 5" oil on canvas panel. Please call me, email me, or click here if you'd like to buy this painting.

Below are some pictures I took of the setup at the Holiday Fair on Saturday. It was a great event, but as usual we were up until 1 AM preparing for the day.


Above is a close up picture of the table. My wife made that amazing gift wrap table cloth and bow the night before.

 
That's me, dreaming about my life again.

 The ladies were shopping!

Early Beach Light

 "At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun." - Unknown

This painting is 8" x 6" oil on canvas panel.



Tomorrow is the big day and your last chance to see my paintings in person before next year. There is also a lot of great pottery, art glass and jewelry. If you're looking to make a whole family trip, the Holiday Fair will be taking place at the same time as the Punkin' Chunkin happening nearby in Bridgeville, DE. Pick up something unique for the holidays and then check out teams hurtling pumpkins up to a mile away.

Booth Location: I will be in the Tubbs Gallery, but the fair takes place throughout every building on the Rehoboth Art League's beautiful 3.5 acre campus.
Date: Saturday, November 5, 2011
Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Admission: $5 - Your ticket entitles you to a chance to win an item in the Ventures Gallery. Each artist will donate a piece of their work for the auction You can buy additional auction tickets before the 3:00 p.m. drawing. All proceeds from the auction will benefit the Rehoboth Art League’s educational and outreach programs.
Parking: There is parking onsite at the Rehoboth Art League
Cuisine: The Village Improvement Association. will offer a delicious luncheon featuring their signature chicken salad. Snack items include a bake table with many and varied sweets, along with several beverage choices.
Official Website: rehobothartleague.org

Skinny House

 "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body." -Benjamin Franklin

This painting is 7" x 5" oil on canvas board.