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Forest Light
A new series brings new energy and inspiration into one’s art. It encourages one to explore the present and to revisit the past. It challenges the artist to break the boundaries of the plateau and to gain new experiences. Light is everywhere, but never is it so interesting and varied as it is in the heart of the forest. I hope you will enjoy this series. Please follow along as it develops.
Heron Cove
36 x 40" Acrylic on canvas
$4,320
We walked all of Greenwell State Park in St. Mary's County one hot afternoon and came upon this beautiful scene. We were hot and sweaty, the bugs were all out in force, but we persevered, and were well rewarded for our effort. Greenwell is not always this hot and challenging. There are many lovely walking trails, a rose garden, old barns, and river views.
Along the Trail to Zealand Falls
A-Z Trail, White Mountains, New Hampshire
48 x 72" acrylic on canvas
$10,368
. . . white mountains
of new hampshire . . .
The trails start in mature forest, traversing rocky switch backs and sometimes climbing straight up the mountainside in a series of rocky steps no one but giants could have made. With elevation, the trees hunker down in defense against the wind and weather. Stone emerges, thrusting up out of the earth, and trees claw into crevices. On the higher ridges is an alpine tundra so delicate hikers must stay on the trail, which is often bare granite and to either side only twelve inches of soil supports
a garden of hardened beauty.
in the fog and wind,
in the midst of the clouds,
in a garden of spruce on a stone path,
the white throated sparrow calls. |
Valley Way Magic
New Hampshire
24x36" acrylic on canvas
$2,592
Valley Way, Watson Path Junction
New Hampshire
24x36" acrylic on canvas
$2,592
Old Rag Stone
48 x 72" acrylic on canvas
$10,368
currently available
Greenwood
8 x 16" Acrylic on Panel
$284
Little Mushroom
8 x 8" Acrylic on Canvas
$157
Midnight Noon
Currently Available
12 x 24" Acrylic on Canvas
sold
From Whence We Came
36" x 40" Acrylic on Canvas, framed
Original available: $7,577
. . . audience. . .
The rustling of leaves and water disturbed, sounds like someone searching, foraging for something, but voiceless. Not then two people in a kayak voyaging—they would talk.
This being moves, but is not concerned about sounds of disturbance that may be overheard. No cat then, or hunting fox, nor even coyote.
Wouldn’t a beaver or woodchuck mutter to themselves like squirrels do? But this is a larger fluster than any of them could fabricate.
I stand still and listen on this windy peninsula where few people ever venture. My ears strain to hear and my eyes focus with my sense of the approach of this whoever.
Thrashing among the branches and leaves down the hillside, black against the water, a shadow rises into view. Becomes a great stag—large with antlers wide spread, the head held level and neck arched inversely supporting the weight.
He—no fool—sees me where I stand and studies me, head moving back and forth to get my true shape. He probably can tell I’m not the killing kind—he approaches for a closer look and stares, but not for long—you never know—and so moves on, north now, down into the next ravine, into the deepest part, where the woods thicken and the ground turns to marsh beyond, negotiating low branches—his passage—now silent, barely disturbing, making no noise. I follow, but he is gone. |
View of Parkers Creek at end of Horse Swamp Trail
American Chestnut Land Trust
40 x 40" Acrylic on Canvas
sold
to private collection in St. Mary's County, MD
. . . american chestnut
land trust
. . .
3000 acres of land and 22 miles of trails and I and my friends have done them all—again and again. Which loop should we do this week? Shall we venture North to South, or PF2BAY? We keep coming back, and certain trails we revisit weekly for the spring flowers and ephemerals . . . we hike the trail to the end for a glimpse of the bay and for Parkers Creek, which bends like the Shenandoah on its way east. |
Red Hat
On the trail to view Old Man in the Mountain, New Hampshire
11 x 14" Acrylic on Canvas
Original available: $462
Village Still Life
Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
12 x 16" Acrylic on Canvas
Original available: $576
Grumpy Grackle
14 x 14" Framed Acrylic on Canvas
sold
. . . jug bay . . .
Jug Bay and the Patuxent River are surrounded by parks and preserves, but the one I call Jug Bay has the Nature Center at the northern end and farms at the southern end, in the vicinity of Wrighton and Lower Pindell Roads.
There is an old railroad bed, now a trail, that goes along the eastern border of the park, and in the west, Jug Bay, and the Patuxent River. One can get in a good 7 mile run on a crisp, clear morning. On rainier days, interspersed across the landscape, are slight depressions, so wide across one cannot see their depth, until they fill with shallow water, and become ephemeral swamps that reflect the sometimes still, sometimes shimmering woodland landscape. |
Jug Bay Wetland
16 x 20" Oil on Canvas
$477
Sunset on Cypress Swamp
30 x 60" Acrylic on Canvas
$5,744
. . . cypress swamp . . .
Cypress swamp is one of those spiritual places if you find yourself in quiet company. From one moment to the next the light changes. Turn around and there are myriad views, the sun moves, the light shifts, and then, you are in a different place.
Just standing on the boardwalk, you can get vertigo—as the view goes down as much as it goes up. |
Woodland Hike
5 x 7" Acrylic on Canvas
$122
Cross Country
5 x 7" Acrylic on Canvas
$135
Thanksgiving Hike
5 x 7" Acrylic on Canvas
$122
Fall View
5 x 7" Acrylic on Canvas
$131
Sunset on the North/South Trail
5 x 7" Acrylic on Canvas
sold
The Snag
Along the Trail to Madison Hut
White Mountains, New Hampshire
5 x 7" Acrylic on Canvas
sold
Rocky to the Top
Along the Trail to Madison Hut
White Mountains, New Hampshire
5 x 7" Acrylic on Canvas
sold
Under the Pines
Along the Trail to Madison Hut
5 x 7" Acrylic on Canvas
sold
Into the Birch Forest
Along the Trail to Zealand Falls Hut
5 x 7" Acrylic on Canvas
sold
your waters are purest
George Washington National Forest
24 x 36
Acrylic on Canvas
$2,592
my summertime home
Camp Strawderman, George Washington National Forest
24 x 36" Acrylic on Canvas
$2,592
tall pines surround your green hills
Camp Strawderman, George Washington National Forest
24 x 36"
Acrylic on Canvas
$2,592
and the lights glowing softly at night guide us home
Camp Strawderman, George Washington National Forest
24 x 36" Acrylic on Canvas
$2,592
. . . george washington
national forest . . .
. . . is for me: limestone and granite, lichen and moss, pine and old weathered oak, misty views of mountains at sunset, morning hikes with rocky climbs that take me above low clouds of fog where only the ridges of the mountains can be seen in the predawn light, cold water creeks with barnacles biting the soles of my feet, long gravel roads strewn here and there with bits of slag from old furnaces, outcrops of fossil shale, ridge trails under low oak and pine with understories of cinnamon fern, hollows where trails wend through dark tunnels of hemlock... |
Big Schloss
George Washington National Forest
24 x 30"
Acrylic on Canvas
$2,160
Claire
Annmarie Garden
11 x 14" oil on canvas
$169
Woodland Path
Annmarie Garden
11 x 14" oil on canvas
$167
. . . annmarie . . .
The kind vision that has formed Annmarie Garden over the years has preserved the forest and created an outdoor museum with long contemplative views of contemporary sculptures and winding pathways.
Look closer, and find a playful spirit that inspires children and adults alike. |
Shortcut
Annmarie Garden
11 x 14" oil on canvas - Palette Knife
sold
a MAZING tree
36 x 72" Acrylic on Canvas
$7,777
... but it is also called "Transpiration" because the maze is structured like the water cycle, where the channels lead from around the sun and down to the ground as rain, into the soil, back up into the tree, out the branches and folliage and into the sky and back around the sun and on and on in a never-ending cycle.
Cherries in Bloom
St. Leonard Polling House, Maryland
7 x 14" oil on canvas
$194
Dogwood in Bloom
Annmarie Garden
8 x 8" oil on canvas
$154
Yoshino
St. Leonard Polling House, Maryland
4 x 6" Acrylic on Panel
$72
Forest Sunset
14 x 14" Framed Acrylic on Canvas
Original available: $392
Dawn Puddle
8 x 10" Framed Acrylic on Canvas
sold
. . . places to wander. . .
Patuxent River Park
Swanson Road
Rosaryville
Kings Landing
Jug Bay
Glendening
Ward Farm Park
Biscoe-Gray Farm Park
Cypress Swamp
American Chestnut Land Trust
Flag Ponds
Calvert Cliffs
Greenwell
Point Lookout
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42 — 675
16 x 20
found objects collage
$1200
photo prints available upon request
42 — 691
12 x 16
found objects collage
$1200
photo prints available upon request
Old Zinnia
18 x 18" Acrylic on Canvas
Original available: $972
Coming Up
"The Snake and the Gravestone"
painting in the works!
Past Inspirations for Forest Light
Hunting Creek
24" x 36"
Private Collection
in Maryland
Sunset Over St. Leonard Creek
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 36
Private Collection in New York
White Oak Canyon
White Oak Canyon
acrylic on canvas 30 x 60in
private collection
This is part of the Appalachian series. White Oak Canyon of Shenandoah National Park is one of my favorite hikes. This is an amazing waterfall and this painting is a compilation of several photos of the falls. |
