After twenty + years of architectural design and planning I’ve launched my own practice with Michael Wang. Michael and I have been working together for the last fifteen years at Arrowstreet in Somerville, Massachusetts. As the economy begins to come around, we think the best time for successfully creating our own design studio is now. We’d like to extend our gratitude to the people of Arrowstreet past and present. We will be finishing project work there over the next few months, and with a spirit of mutual appreciation, will continue to look for ways to collaborate. 2012 ought to be an interesting year. Look for more info here on my blog and at our website: www.formandplace.com
Vermont - Late Autumn
Autumn on the Charles
Happy Thanksgiving every body!
Corn, corn and more corn. But it’s beautiful. The variations in landscape composition are endless.
Southern Minnesota
South Dakota - corn and soy bean patterns.
Another from Thunder Basin. The dark spots are cows.
From Thunder Basin and the National Grasslands in the north east corner of Wyoming. The blue sage grass out there must be the most common plant in the entire country. It was absolutely everywhere - from the Badlands to southern Montana - south through Yellow Stone, the Tetons, Utah, Arizona and the Grand Canyon - back east again to Canyon City, Colorado. It is literally almost always present in some amount. This pastel is drawn on Esse paper which I think is Italian. It has a gridded tooth which you can plainly see in the drawings. There was a pile of it left over at work after printing a brochure for an Italian client. Loving drawing on this paper!
Southern Utah.
I’ve started to work with the images that we collected on our cross country trip this past summer. As I look back on these images now and start to consider compositions and color palettes, patterns emerge. The land is perceived at such a different scale out there. Depth and width dominate our understanding of the land more immediately than say surfaces or color. But when you look closely you see that the crops - and the farm yards that they dwarf - have repeated characteristics. The houses and farm yards for instance are almost always shelterd to the north and west by trees, protecting the structures from the brunt of winter storms, westerly prevailing winds and relentless afternoon sun. This 6 x 9 pastel study is from eastern South Dakota.
Detail from this mornings walk.
Boston Skyline - I did this as a commission for a friend who is moving to Australia in the not too distant future and wanted a Boston memory to take with him.
This is the last pastel for the Portsmouth show. The show is at 100 Market Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and will feature both mine and Caroline’s work, along with lots of great work by other artists. There is an opening from 5 to 8 in the evening on Friday October 28th. Please join us if you can!
Worked on some pastels this weekend for the Portsmouth, NH show. We’ll send out an announcement for the show soon. Drop-off is next weekend!
Detail from a new 18x18 oil. It’s October. Time to paint barns!
Getting ready for a House Party / private showing of our work tonight.
10 x 10 oil - again from the World’s End series.
"Girl and Buckets" - Oil and grease pencil on paper.
There was a reception today at Carlisle Public Library for a show that Caroline is in with her friends Joni Levy Liberman and Elizabeth Carter. It was great to see Caroline’s latest work all hung and it looks incredible with Joni and Elizabeth’s work. There are such wonderful cross overs in medium and subject!