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 Is there any background history or event in your life that shaped your art work? Where do your ideas for paintings come from? What is your studio like? Does it inspire you? What artists are most important to you? I’ve worked in all kinds of spaces over the years, from rooms I’ve rented in old houses to downtown office buildings, and I’ve liked each of them, because just having a private place for painting is a wonderful thing. One of my studios in Washington, DC was in a condemned building, over a porno shop, and I had a productive and happy few years there (fortunately I moved out before the building burned down.) A few years ago I built a big new studio onto the 150 year old farmhouse that’s home in Vermont--I designed it just the way I wanted it, with an area for oil painting with north light, an area for big watercolors with balanced artificial light, big walls for looking at paintings while I’m working on them, shelves for art books and still life objects, and a bathroom, so that I don’t have to walk into the main house for water, and get distracted. I have a view to mountains in the west, with a lovely sunset every night, though I find I’m too busy at my drawing table to remember to look at the view. I love working there, and I’m hoping never to have another studio. |
