Butterfly attraction

acrylic on panel
12" x16"
$350

This painting is inspired by the beautiful butterfly bushes that are everywhere in the garden at the Whistler House Museum http://www.whistlerhouse.org/. The painting is in an abstract contemperory style with complementary purple and yellow playing off each other, it is about creating an outdoor garden mood set in a pleasing composition.
The butterfly bushes are significant because the artist, James McNeill Whistler's "monogram 'J.W.' was developed into a 'butterfly' signature in c.1869 and gradually evolved over the next thirty years, acquiring antennae, veins and a tail."http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/miscellany/butterflies/

Butterflies

A chronology of Whistler's butterfly signatures

1873	1883	1885
1889	1894	1898

 

Goodbye Winter 2

oil on canvas
8"x 10"
$250

Small winter painting that reflects the mood of this winter on a good day, lots of snow, moody sky with some patches of afternoon sun, cold and dry. Thats a NE winter!