I want all things right now - snow hushed landscapes, and to see the first mossy path of spring, bordered with early snowdrops and hellebores.
Surround Yourself With It
“In Reverie” acrylic on claybord panel, after Thomas Shields Clarke. All rights reserved.
I’m happy to share that I’ve gotten my print shop in order. There you’ll find new works - like this recent favorite - as well as archived pieces never offered as prints before.
Hope you’ll take a took, spread the word, and grab something for yourself or to surprise someone with.
x Lauren
Apparently
It Never Existed (Like This)
“It Never Existed (Like This)” acrylic on 5x7” clapboard panel.
Thoughts on places I’d like to go that don’t exist, never existed - not like this, at least.
Painting after an autochrome by John Cimon Warburg - "Neptune Fountain, Cheltenham," circa 1915.
Icymi
“Untitled (Night Sky #1)” acrylic on 5x7” claybord panel.
I have a newsletter that lifts the curtain on so very many areas relating to my work.
The latest talks all about the ‘why’ of my summer series.
Overlooked Corners
More thoughts on light.
If you want to know a little story about this unassuming scene, click here.
Summer Sounds
Finished up the last of my summer paintings yesterday. Here’s one of them. A shame you can’t hear the soft symphony of bug & birdsong found here.
Under Stacks
“Fireflies Remembered” acrylic on 5x7 claybord.
End of summer memories are piling up. Painting so much I can’t keep up with photographing many of them. (Not that I really want to, photographing art is the bane of my existence.)
But, here’s one.
The rest you can catch on via my newsletter. (It’ll take me a bit until galleries get updated around here.)
& here’s a link with information on helping out these glorious little lanterns.
Out Back
When you’re young, there are things in life you take as a given. Because, what reason would you have to second guess them? As I’ve grown, the one thing I long for with an ache that feels like a part of me is missing, is a garden. (Happily, in my current place we’ve worked hard to set up a mini one, but I still dream of acreage.)
This scene is of the first garden in my life, and I’ll always think of who tended to it, what it taught & provided, and how special it is to have a garden.
True Story
Sometimes the ocean really is that purple.
& now I’m enamored with light filtering up through tree lined streets.
Shiny New Things
Whew! Busy.
Between being back in the full swing of painting & getting my newsletter rolling, I haven’t had much time to come up for air. & I love it.
If there’s anything I enjoy more than art, it’s talking and writing about art. Check it out here.
Love Notes -
The most recent one in my sketchbook, next to another from last year.
Lost Inside
“Lost Inside” acrylic on panel, 2023.
Books, as ever. Here’s a bonus photo of those buttery brushstrokes I’m always so focused on.
Old Into New
The colors & textures of this field - strewn with decaying logs and fresh sprigs of grass - is a reminder this time of year always brings. Let things change.
Sunset at the Cove
“Sunset at the Cove” acrylic on clayboard.
I have a crush on this place. Expect to see more of it.
Warm up laps
At the point of quick studies and planning paintings with sketches.
See more of my plein air sketchbook here.
Burnout
Well - that was one hell of a dry spell. An entire year. Glad to be back with a brush in hand.
Master copy / color study of Sorolla’s “Main Entrance: Sorolla House” c. 1916 to ease back into this.
Laugh or You'll Go Crazy
Though really, why not do both.
Ten points if you can name who belongs to this rarest of smiles.
Hi Hello
Back from disappearing for a bit.
Fell in love with the simplicity of a no. 2 pencil recently.
Is there anything greater than Toulouse Lautrec?
I didn’t think so before I did this study and I’m more convinced after.
Pages in my sketchbook - two color studies playing around with palettes I don’t naturally gravitate to and this study of ‘At The Moulin Rouge’ circa 1895.
Lautrec has made a solid case for bringing black onto my palette.