After last week’s “snowmageddon,” today’s downright balmy weather feels like a gift. Sitting on my back porch in the warm sun, I’m looking at the shapes between the trees and the sky and the ground.
I made a series of paintings based on drawings of chairs and a table and trees I drew on this back porch when I was imagining creating spaces for conversation… I was inspired by a painting of a chair that Richard Diebenkorn made years ago, and he in turn was inspired by an Henri Matisse painting. This makes them my art grandpas if you will. I like thinking of the line of artists who inspire younger artists – this artistic lineage is reassuring in a way.
Scroll down to see one of the paintings from this series, and then the Diebenkorn and Matisse works below it.
