Wednesday, February 25, 2009

NZ paintings arrived

I picked up my New Zealand paintings today from American Airlines. They look different in the light here! I Painted them with diffused natural light coming in from skylights in my Wellington studio whereas I paint mostly by artificial light and ambient light in Minneapolis. Additionally the color and intensity of the sunlight is different in New Zealand in general and in Wellington most notably. Its much more intense there and whiter than our warm yellowish light in middle America.

I'll be showing them in May as part of a proper show.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Departing New Zealand is bittersweet. Today I cleaned out my studio; brought buckets of sand back to the beach; swept, and carried the canvases out to the car. I spoke little to my studio mates as I was rather melancholy.