New House, New Light

We recently moved into 1950’s Camp Blanding house after living in the same little elderly Duckpond apartment for sixteen years. As with any new home, the change brings the unexpected-- some blindingly lovely (like our new neighbors and their respective pets, Skip and Verb) and some requiring a good bit of Youtube diving and donning a Dickies uniform to get very dusty and dirty to fix. In the evenings, filling a small sketchbook of watercolors grew into these few paintings. Checkered tiles were soon supplanted by other more mysterious repeating shapes, until I realized they resemble the shadows on the yet-to-be-replaced blinds in the windows. The vivid colors emerge in a welcome counterpoint to my older more muted work as the new home reveals new light.

watercolor and vinyl transfer on paper