MEETING GOD on the GROUND IV

Celebrate Earth Day with Art and Music!
Meeting God on the Ground is an Art exhibit and Sale curated by Gwen & Stephen Howard

of Darlington, devoted to artists who have found their spiritual connection to the Creator in the study of landscape painting.
APRIL 21-25th ARTIST RECEPTION APRIL 23, 7-9PM WITH LIVE BLUEGRASS MUSIC!
Deer Creek Presbyterian Church , Darlington , MD Call 410-734-6087 for details

(LATER NOTE: THE SHOW WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL.

I SOLD 10 PIECES , OVER HALF OF MY WORK.)

Downstream - Upstream Deer Creek

The last Saturday of my Easter break was a beautiful crisp, clear day. I was at work in the studio but my wife told me how great the weather was and I shouldn't be inside on such a beautiful day. She was right. So out I went with my french easel and Maggie the dog and found myself driving north up to Rock State Park. I scrambled along the shore over rocks and boulders along Deer Creek and set up on an outcropping right below the King and Queen Seat.

I worked all day listening to the water and saying hello to trout fishermen as they would walk by thinking "why haven't I painted here before" but I knew the answer to that. Seeing the stream paintings of Robert Stark 4 years ago inspired me to paint what I really loved which is painting along the Ausable and the Bouquet in the Adirondacks. I can think of very few things more pleasant than spending the day by a beautiful river and losing oneself in sound of moving water. 8x10in and 10x10in. oil SOLD

April Cows I II

These two little 6x6in paintings on birch boxes are of the cows that belong to the farm behind our house. We watch the cattle walk across the ridgeline in all seasons. The land has been sold and another piece of rural Harford Co. goes to the developers. I think because of this I hiked through the woods and crossed the stream to take a closer look at the cows (and they to me). It was dawn on the first day of April. I had some fun with these oil paintings by re-working them in oil pastel and giving them a nice coat of fixative. April Cow I, II - SOLD