DeBlois Gallery Opening

Still Life

My friend Patricia is a painter. 

Waiting on Route 2 in Exeter for Triple A to come resuscitate her old car,

she sat in the sunny back seat and painted the yellow birches

in both watercolors and pastels.

It really is a blessing that Triple A is so slow

because the resulting painting is quite lovely.

Plein air painting is for the birds.

Painting while standing on one's feet for hours is literally numbing.

Georgia O'Keefe did it right.

And so does Patricia:

Front seat, back seat,

Getting down the bones of the landscape and filling it all in from the comfort of one's own car.

This really is as good as it gets.

RDB

December 4, 2016


*Artist is Patricia Szydlo