South Carolina Landscapes - New Paintings for an Old Genre in Beaufort

For the first time in some years, my South Carolina landscape paintings will be on view at the Pinckney Simons Gallery in Beaufort for the annual spring Art Walk. I was contacted about doing a new set of paintings in my old genre about six weeks ago and decided that, some wonky visual and health impediments notwithstanding, I would take the challenge.

Digging through my photographic archives, I found the place where I left off doing color work due to a strange acquired color perception in my left dominant eye. I tried wearing a patch over that eye, but the patch was uncomfortable and did not block the peripheral vision out of the "bad" eye.


In the end, the solution was to just read color labels carefully, paint with both eyes open, then closing my left eye to double check the colors. It seems to have worked, although the colors are probably more intense than I am actually seeing them.

Four of my paintings are new. The fifth one, seen above, is a redo of an earlier painting that I completed about five years ago. I am happy with the new work but am especially pleased with that last one - the rescue painting. At this stage in my cluttered life I cannot store paintings that I’m not truly satisfied with. The ones I consider salvageable I redo. Others I just paint over entirely.

The Beaufort Art Walk takes place on Saturday, April 7.
Wow! A green sky!  Out of my right eye it is blue and gray.  But I will keep this anyway.