Portfolio: Vanishing Points
Vanishing Points
The real voyage of discovery is not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust
Over the years I have painted many views from a landscape that I savor on a daily basis – along the road between my home in Vergennes and my work at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. “Big sky country,” Vermont style, observed at all times of day and in all seasons, has inspired a series of paintings that capture ephemeral moments: a changing weather front, a glimpse of the sky reflected in a vernal pond. The series name, Vanishing Points, is taken from the painting of a snow squall that threw into high relief the graphic lines of plowed fields converging on a distant farm: within minutes, the sun will vanish behind the clouds; the snow will melt in a day or a season; and every year more of the old barns and open fields vanish from the landscape.
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Double Rainbow Oil on canvas 20 " x 24" |
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The Farm on Schoolhouse Road Oil on canvas 20 " x 20" |
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Vanishing Points - Changing Weather Oil on canvas 20 " x 20" |
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Vanishing Points - Snow Squall Oil on canvas 20 " x 20" |
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Vanishing Points - Vernal Pond Oil on canvas 20 " x 20" |
