Collinsville Mills
Watercolor. 12″ x 9″. The Collinsville Mill sits along the Farmington Canal, no longer used to transport the axes and edge tools that were produced there. The brickwork stained by decades of industry reflecting the mill’s worn facades and the quiet hills beyond. $150
Rustbelt Reemergence
Acrylic/Paper. 27″ x 21″. If you turn this painting horizontally, you will see that it is an old plough, which I found rusting away in Brooksvale Park in Hamden, CT. Turning it vertically, this piece of old farm equipment becomes monumental and iconic. Curvilinear lines that form cogs and gears blur the distinction between realism and abstraction. The painting lingers in the quiet after industry has moved on, where weeds claim the cracks, light pools in broken windows, and rust blossoms into intricate patterns. Rustbelt Reemergence invites us to view the decaying detritus of human industry as something reborn and alive. $950
John Deere Potato Seed Cutter
Acrylic on Paper. 38″x28″. The antique John Deere Potato Seed Cutter, with chipped paint and rusted metal is situated outside of its agricultural setting. In this intimate wall-papered interior, can it be transformed to a music stand, or a bicycle machine? Might it be a fading memory of American agricultural history? $950
Moldboard Plow at the Notch
Moldboard Plow at the Notch. Acrylic on paper. 28” x 20 3/4”. The 193 Moldboard Plow and Coulter Disk made by International Harvester for their Farmall Club, popular in the 1830s. This plow sits in a bed of drying hydrangea in front of the Notch in Cheshire, CT, a popular breakfast and lunch spot that celebrated its 100th anniversary several years ago. It is a portrait of labor and land in conversation, a meditation on the passing of agrarian life, local food sources and the traces it leaves behind. In this exuberant painting, I chose to highlight the beauty and intricacy of antique farm equipment, with a nod to contemporary painterly notions of expressionistic brushwork. $800.
Plough at Flanders
Watercolor, watercrayon. 10”x 8.” An old plough at the edge of a field in Flanders Farm in Washington, CT, home of the Gilmore Girls. $125.