…abandoned Moscow metro station
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Shadows, 2008
…looking for light
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This was from a photograph taken at the same time as Weathervane. More texture, more paint… — spence
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…one of those moments where even just a doorway becomes a palette of light Continue Reading
Bowl & Kerchief, 1981
I had finished intermediate painting classes, and set up a small room in the house I rented as a studio, with a painting bench, a small table and light for still life setups and minimal oil paints. This stayed with me, this single painting, from those initial on-my-own workings. I was taught paintings…
Continue ReadingStreet Through the Window, 2011, Sunset #20
This was from a photograph I took in February 2011, when my daughter was lying in a coma in ICU. My brothers had come out to help watch and stay with her. We went out to eat at a restaurant called the Rock’N Fish, right up the street from the Manhattan Beach Pier….
Continue ReadingWeathervane, 2008
light hitting the brass goose weathervane on a neighbor’s garage, in contrast with the fall leaves
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Painting was taught to me starting with drawing, then moving to tone painting, then tone paintings with glazing of color, then more direct application of color and form. Capturing textures, colors and shapes and light as it wraps the shapes in a still life and having the objects come to life on a…
Continue ReadingNew York Road, 2008
I was riding in the passenger seat driving back from New York, and I saw this tower from the road, it just looked so much like something Hopper would have painted… — spence
Continue ReadingGirl Reading in Hall 2004
…working through several of Picasso’s changing perspectives dropped me into a playful space
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