Edgewater Gallery On The Green presents “Reflections”, a group exhibition featuring the work of artists Kathleen Kolb, Lori Mehta and Karen O’Neil, on view for the months of June and July.

As I complete the work for this exhibition I am reflecting on this difficult time in human history, during the Covid 19 Pandemic. My two newest paintings refer to this obliquely. Yellow Barn, Spring is an effort to bring cheer, manifesting the bright force of life’s insistent renewal. Waiting explores facing an indistinct horizon and going deeper, to evoke the uncertain vulnerability of where we are and to offer the solid balm of beauty when we can’t know what’s ahead. This is related to the emotional content of my nocturne paintings, in which darkness obscures detail, simplifies form, and offers the perspective of the outsider.

As always, my paintings are about light: direct, reflected, refracted. The sublime beauty of light is the core of what I love about the visual world. In these works light is reflected in windows, on the satin luster of clapboards, on steel rails, on water. I invite viewers to reflect on what they see in the paintings and, I hope, sense what has occupied my mind as I paint.