Equinox
Winter is officially over, and now we enter mud season in Maine. It is a time of brown, beige and mushy earth, freezing wind and rain, and an occasional blue sky where you can actually feel the sun’s rays shine warm on your skin again. The bulbed plants are the most optimistic out of the all the sleepy flora, and come up first. Their vibrant yellow-green against the gray is a sigh for sore eyes. I’m excited for this “waking up” of the natural world, and getting out into it with a camera.
This year, my resolution is to get comfortable with the Fujifilm x100vi. I want to get out into nature, and try my hand at street photography. I’m prepping for a couple of work trips- commencement in NYC and a residency in Athens, and I want to be ready.
March 28, 2026 “No Kings” rally, Monument Square, Portland, ME
We dipped our toe into the issue of public dissent and brought the kids to the “No Kings” rally where I took a few photos. It was not only great to get back to practicing with the camera, but to also open up Lightroom to get reacquainted with this powerful editing tool.
Getting good photos can also mean updating reference for potential paintings. My current project has been to finish the large 40×30 vertical I’ve been working on for the past 3 months. I’m both very excited and very nervous about bringing it to completion. It’s already been fussed-over, so anything newly laid overtop needs to be fall-off-the-brush FRESH!
I’ll keep that progress under wraps for now, but I’d like to share the beginnings of a new painting. It went from pencil drawing to painted sketch in a few short hours. How’s it look so far?
Underpainting for Forest Art Lesson, 24×18
Earlier this month Greenhut Galleries had its Portland Show opening, and it was a wonderful event! I’m slowly beginning to research where the opportunities lie for fine artists: locally and regionally. As the style begins to solidify I think of other ways to expand my practice- not just in galleries and online, I’m also feeling ready to get back into teaching.
I’ve been offered some summer workshop opportunities by fine artist and North Yarmouth Academy art teacher (& brother-in-law), Colby Myer, at his shared Fort-Andross studio with wife (sister-in-law), Lindsey Erin. Together, they have crafted a working studio that flexes as an art studio, workshop venue, and extension of home- an expansive space filled with natural light and enormous windows facing out over the Androscoggin River. I’ll send a newsletter announcement when those get scheduled.
Friends, I hope these sunnier days are presenting themselves as healing and restorative. I hope you are finding time to do the things that light you up. I hope you’re being your most creative, whimsy self. Happy spring!
