https://www.markrichart.org/abstract daily 0.75 2024-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1687189057952-46BGJ1VIEGJP3TG0HJ2K/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Leaving sandgate FPS #277, 11” x 14”, acryllic on cradled board, 2023. On my 64th birthday I visited my Father. He lives in Sandgate Vermont, about three hours north of me. Harry is an artist, a painter so we have lots to talk about. This is me, rolling out of the mountains, about 6:00 am, in my ’96 ford ranger. It’s raining, has been for a week. My truck runs pretty good and am happy to be out of the rain. Dad’s tractor was broken, i replaced the starter solenoid and she runs good now, he is pleased. Most of all, i got to be the good son. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1687189057952-46BGJ1VIEGJP3TG0HJ2K/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Leaving sandgate FPS #277, 11” x 14”, acryllic on cradled board, 2023. On my 64th birthday I visited my Father. He lives in Sandgate Vermont, about three hours north of me. Harry is an artist, a painter so we have lots to talk about. This is me, rolling out of the mountains, about 6:00 am, in my ’96 ford ranger. It’s raining, has been for a week. My truck runs pretty good and am happy to be out of the rain. Dad’s tractor was broken, i replaced the starter solenoid and she runs good now, he is pleased. Most of all, i got to be the good son. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1687189571442-47BTN53UQAGK4O4K37OY/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Leaving sandgate #2 FPS #279, 14” x 11”, acrylic on cradled board, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1683382491326-TF5V900VVBRC3O89IGYC/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Solo Five Points Studio, #276, 76” x 64”, acrylic on canvas, 2023. Noelke abstract number 6. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1681930092382-AVOWEVNXO37QVLPJCHL1/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Deconstructed grid Five Points Studio, #275, 18” x 24”, acrylic & varnish on canvas, 2023. This is another Noelke painting, responding to his criticism without narrative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1681306352793-UTGEDQMAYABM0EXJ761U/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Willows in four (the large one is sold) Five Points Studio, #274, 4 panels. 30” x 40”, acrylic & varnish on canvas. 3 panels 11” x 14”, cradled board, acrylic, 2023. A color study in texture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1678738468240-F27GRA7JOJTUWFZYBUWY/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Good morning Persephone This stone I hurl into the abyss without regret or doubt, and on it is etched a little piece of us. We do this because that is our way, and art is a voice that reaches across time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1679775914666-09HNGDBSBBUWE5MCXWEM/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - She has secrets Five Points Studio, #271, 76” x 64”, acrylic & spray paint, oil pastel on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1673981880434-4GC53R5680HIRD8ZYGMP/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Behind the answer Five Points Studio, #269, 60” x 48”, acrylic & oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1670697449899-6VRHBWOFH0MW4EOTFRMC/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Figment - sold Five Points Studio, #266, 48” x 60”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2022. The little plastic bracelet has lost its sheepish charm falling out of water into relentless harm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1672952979471-W30S3MVSPWDKGYJ9V7L3/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Prevailing Aesthetic Five Points Studio, #267, 48” x 60”, acrylic & oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1681306308441-X169VWT5AERTE9A92CWC/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Fear - sold Five Points Studio, #268, 60” x 48”, acrylic & oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1668879813447-SMDP9BI57X431OH7ODX8/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Without explanation Five Points Studio, #265, 60” x 48”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint on canvas 2022. My friend John Noelke told me that I am not an abstract painter. He said, the work is narrative and riffs with abstract motiff. That may be true but I am a product of the New York Aesthetic, my storage unit will attest to that. This painting, just off the easel, is my response to him, and it was was difficult for me. That red box wants to be filled, but remains a question. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1666206043784-46X7YF4NEO6VGU1R7XH2/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Astray Five Points Studio, #262, 48” x 60”, acrylic & oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2022. Number three in my Quixote series. He is relentless and angry at something new now, the windmills get a break. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1662829438571-X46EHCR0ELV1ENJG1FWS/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - My name is Dulcinea Five Points Studio, #260, 36” x 36”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, pencil on canvas, 2022. There are a lot of forces that direct artists attention. When they coincide, it moves us. I hang around in the bookstore everyday for an hour, talking art and books with John Noelke who owns the shop. The coffee is horrible but it’s free. There was a copy of Don Quixote near my rocker, I remembered it from high school and it was a tough read for me. For a few days I picked it up stopping for a taste here and there and stumbled upon the story of Dulcinea. That same week I got an email from Amy Greenberg who has a company that distributes smart things. The link she sent me went to this story. My take away is about the power of unrequited love. Don loved a woman who did not love him, yet she was able to transform herself using the power of that affection. There is a third coincidence but that one is better left for another time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1664377826611-RHULEDG3EN3SDGXRO4BO/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Quixote rides with me Five Points Studio, #261, 36” x 36”, acrylic & oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2022. He is with me now and may stay a while. Wary of his notional attributes, I try to ignore him. Rocinante is lost in his thoughts and plods on without direction. I can hear his shoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1661274239623-IQ0UINXEWWHH882FM6BG/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Kiss me Five Points Studio, #258, 36” x 36”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1660229413299-YYLQ9PXQDPGBD61CENL4/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - She has teeth Five Points Studio, #256, 36” x 36”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1667234587707-8P7Z6MVGIGT57U3BPSFD/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Summer reading Five Points Studio, #263, 20” x 16”, oil paint, wax, spray paint on cradled board 2022. What do we read on the beach? Romance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1661616447438-24M26WASJYYSQEVFTHET/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - The women from Sage Hill Five Points Studio, #259, 24.5” x 18.5”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1660229262200-Q5COK66X5T2OAZHZ6RQN/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - She said, I do Five Points Studio, #256, 14” x 11”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1658508763117-JUCO3PTK4X68G5M7MXAL/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Teeth Five Points Studio, #252, 40” x 30”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, on canvas, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1652988778919-PW354DBPX49KUED5R5MV/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Spontaneous desire Five Points Studio, #247, 58” x 70”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, on canvas, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1657136552584-L5MYN3OQJMZVYUBKMO3R/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - In reverence of women Five Points Studio, #250, 58” x 70”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, on canvas, 2022. This is the fourth in the "Spontaneous Desire" series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1653669216627-F0EK2I4EL0V8I9PPZBDY/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - She loves to sew Five Points Studio, #248, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, on cradled board, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1654113734644-XQWRMHMS8HJZ6Z05X9OJ/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - The Coat (Number three, “Spontaneous desire” series) Five Points Studio, #249, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, on cradled board, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1657661276649-ZUWLVJFAARF8UVOPR9YE/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - I think of her Five Points Studio, #251, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, on cradled board, 2022. This is the fifth in the "Spontaneous Desire" series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1655742489726-J6RXEKV0JUXH2KBC4RB9/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Summation series #1 - Corn and cat tails Five Points Studio, #244, 63” x 58”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1651936047423-ULS2QG5AZBC0O1JPM8OI/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Three visions Five Points Studio, #246, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, ink jet on cradled board, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1651933411773-DWNZZAKNO2JZBDI64PJR/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Y and the cat tails - sold Five Points Studio, #245, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, on cradled board, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1651178732816-64RR2E7HAWB02V9I8J2J/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - My djellaba Five Points Studio, #243, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1649445498972-GZU6XTQRES4D8CRSP5EI/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Stalking fate - sold Five Points Studio, #242, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1648659641784-GKN7M1KPAQDBTSD3C41N/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - The road Five Points Studio, #240, 46” x 46”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, pencil on canvas, 2002. All my favorite writers have written an “on the road book”. The idea is good in print, not so good in practice. I’ve read most, didn’t like any of them but am compelled to follow my heroes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1649265490116-1FNAQJJ3KIDU7DCZFFWP/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Feral guitars Five Points Studio, #241, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2002. On some nights there’ll be four or five of em lurking in the backyard, howling and scratching around. They don’t seem to hurt anything so I leave them alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1648498790350-YD0NR4I4OU1ZNC1858KM/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Angry little trees Five Points Studio, #238, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, pencil on cradled board, 2002. From my sketchbook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1647980003921-378ZYL0C2DW5L7I5V301/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Two dots Five Points Studio, #236, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, pencil on cradled board, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1648498627511-RS3FQW5JOV8DVFA7W6VF/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Magic ball Five Points Studio, #239, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, pencil on cradled board, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1648498902492-FT1X3J6YVLERHNNXI5RE/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - TV with friends Five Points Studio, #237, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, pencil on cradled board, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1648065730944-YWOCAV92BO65257D6WEK/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Honey I’m home - sold Five Points Studio, #235, 11” x 14”, paper, oil paint, wax, spray paint, ink jet, colored pencil on cradled board, 2002. PROCESS - The figure and archway are the stencils I’ve used in numerous big paintings over the last year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1647961447669-MACBAV4M94UY6EB1WO4J/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Finding Sabat Five Points Studio, #234, 14” x 11”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, ink jet, colored pencil on cradled board, 2002. The drawing on the left, pencil on paper from my sketchbook. The painting, mixed media on board, 14" x 11", 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1645114381873-P7G3Q2WOO733QWLGIG7R/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Fine in the dark Five Points Studio, #232, 36” x 48”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on canvas, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1643304277403-QFTATTSM3NZTIQ9ZIUXH/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - John sold the Klee Five Points Studio, #231, 45” x 45”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on canvas, 2022. During a coffee break, chatting away at Howard’s bookstore, my friend who owns the store, John Noelke sold the Paul Klee book. It was an important book because its the one he used when someone would walk in the store and say, “i don’t like abstract art”. He’d flip that book open, put a big finger on a great painting and the skeptic would nod and murmur, “well, thats nice”. The book was on the shelf and he sold it, to someone we don’t know, right in front of me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1641409594413-VQZ0MUMHAKRS97F4JM3T/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Gauze curtain - sold Five Points Studio, #230, 40” x 30”, spray paint on canvas, 2022. I am remembering the laundry on the line moving in the breeze. A sickly kid, I am very young and cannot go outside, so I watch through the curtain. This is number three in a series title, “Memories of my mother.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1640890959992-NBB7YYZRO7HB1NUHM4NF/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Sabat is watching Five Points Studio, #229, 30” x 40”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, colored pencil, spray paint on canvas, 2021. Winding down another year, goodbye 2021. Sabat is the dalmation in the lower left. He is a character from a crazy book called, Hold tight your Crown. It is Paris, we'd been drinking, the city is spinning and Sabat has run off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1632948578811-PW8KYXPEPVCEWIA66JCR/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Persistent Effect (sold) Five Points Studio, #216, 48” x 60”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on canvas, 2021. I saw this in person yesterday... complexity! I enjoy getting lost in segments like a visual corn maze. It's autumn colors and organized jumble brings to mind a golden field of thoughts, nostalgia, imagination and feelings. The dominant perpendicular composition anchors the confetti of marks and shapes. – Suzanne Kachmar, City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1636393860941-XSGRNZXF4IVNT13PZHM5/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Board game #1 #221, 30” x 30”, Oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel on canvas, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1641409852788-16DDTNF9CA9NITBIZN3Z/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - medusa and the bean Five Water St., #226, 24” circle, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil, on wood board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1638222339337-V2AUF4FGAK4H0L2RTOA2/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Imminent Defeat Five points #223, 24” circle, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on wood panel, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1641410166370-QE2Q2IFBMPUEYSGJO08T/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Medusa watches Five Water St., #227, 24” circle, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, pencil, on wood board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1638222519877-RJE7N4ND6H7B6BKTU6O0/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Imagined fame Five Points, #224, 10” x 10”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1638222639618-OD2IDT2JDGMHFSBTK51Q/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Grief Five Points, #225, 10” x 10”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1636393437301-IB04GX8PMPE75UIW8RNG/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Big word Five Points Studio, #217, 30” x 30”, oil paint & wax, spray paint, on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1625772273516-F2XMRUU2MASMSZV8FXUE/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - The Return - sold Five Points Studio, #207, 64” x 64”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on canvas, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1630419545898-BZWDN32KQZPAYCAXQHEP/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - He has faith Five Points Studio, #211, 48” x 60”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on canvas, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1630419709139-DG9343IWYLK9Y6794ICH/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Airplanes and Dirt Naps Five Points Studio, #212, 48” x 60”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on canvas, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1636394125036-0KU3QTG8YX9WQSW3921M/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Raheem and the blue door #222, 8" x 10", mixed media on paper mounted to cradled board. Oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel, colored pencil, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1636393609031-REE0YB8EC0PEDWQ6PX9F/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Please Five Points Studio, #218, 10” x 10”, oil paint & wax, spray paint, on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1636393731581-Q6H05V3RTPKVF7HAV7NW/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Falling Quietly - sold Five Points Studio, #219, 8” x 10”, oil paint & wax, spray paint, on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1630603757531-PM4FXXZ807NGZH7SFW8E/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Please catch them “Y” Five Points Studio, #213, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1631038929542-ULIR0W3J7NCQM37TSB1B/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - In the pile - sold Five Points Studio, #214, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1631039460844-4LKUWBGMELYO4ORM4VWI/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Antifa Five Points Studio, #215, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1626461216687-9PFLCJ6DXZX50EJEIB8Z/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Knight takes pawn - sold Five Points Studio, #210, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1626359517509-FYGTNALXOFUE8NR2KB1U/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Heavy dude (sold) Five Points Studio, #208, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on cradled board, 202 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1626359604863-2CAZVTMXNBBUO08KBLHN/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Space - sold Five Points Studio, #209, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, spray paint, pencil on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1623695329915-891I1LFTOG1J5XBDTWV4/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Picture Window Five Points Studio, #206, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1623333923125-NDHHEAMBD4J0A2JSHE4O/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Responding to Harry - Dirtnap # Five Points Studio, #204, 24” x 18”, oil paint, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1622553500075-A2F2SX3VQKCCHGK1VQE1/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Dirt Nap #2 Five Points Studio, #203, 24” x 18”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on cradled board, 2021. Peeking under the carpet of earth for answers, trying to be prepared, I cheat just a little. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1622136087156-VP229TTTLYFQHML6V53I/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Angry Liquor Five Points Studio, #201, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1623695695829-60CQ0L9VOXFVQNBDJE93/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Repentant Liquor Five Points Studio, #205, 12” x 12”, oil paint, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1623162627029-SD1QXN0TDAS7TQ0CLNY0/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Morocco House - sold Five Points Studio, #202, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1621696416769-LF4WX4Q46LN9IVHLE939/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Ascension #1 Water St. Studio, #200, 48” x 36”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1620317208584-GOW755UI95WIOKN5KFJD/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Including sunlight Water St. Studio, #199, 36” x 48”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2021. A good jazz band is playing in the park on mayday and she is wearing a new dress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1620317105300-BP6N76EDR7XNVLGN3T48/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Dirt Nap Water St. Studio, #198, 18” x 24”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2021. From me to the world, out of respect for human frailty. Might as well have a laugh at the grim reapers expense. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1618495002837-IAVACIRIFUGM0KF5KGRI/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Y sees the moon Five Points Studio, #197, 18” x 24”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1617981306120-L7GKB01S3X92MGJAB5L0/image.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Difficult explanation - sold Five Points Studio, #196, 60” x 48”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas. The current is strong, a good spot to drift. We open ourselves to the experience and try not to miss anything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1615476889326-028S4D3UVW8DYYDLYN56/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Dance kid 5 Points Studio, #195, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, pencil on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1614802305692-XEVE7HEIRCNA33F0MBKX/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Y and Dart 5 Points Studio, #194, 18” x 24”, oil paint, wax, pencil on canvas, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1614560094840-GBXFUT6AHMFDYYC0HBZ9/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Water Street Geese 5 Points Studio., #192, 64” x 64”, oil paint, wax, colored pencil, on linen, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1614445092067-4RK2JUC1AXA6L0VLEI3T/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - The Goose Bar 5 Points Studio, #193, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, pencil on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1611603228469-0M77MBA7IYJIK1AYKQMO/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - WAPJ - donated to WAPJ 5 Points Studio, #191, 18” x 24”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 2021. Thank you WAPJ for spinning the soundtrack to our lives here in downtown Torrington, it’s a great place to be and getting better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1613674079009-VOGLPA7MX8QYYV2GZYWJ/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - The Meara Building (sold) collection Noelke Gallery 5 Points Studio, #190, 48” x 60”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1610123988371-SXRGRQRP7642Q7EO2SSA/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Watching 5 Points Studio #189, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1610123908205-AH11J88JOLON5KGC50LM/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Evening hydrant 5 Points Studio #188, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1609441611018-1DD4EHNYA45CBKZI49YO/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Bearings - sold 5 Water St., #187, 30” x 48”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1608324344685-2MSK9BDI8IUFDS3FH321/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Y returns to the pub (sold) 5 Water St., #186, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1608146980897-1AF2TY9TG9BPWBJ7S1XF/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Pub fish 5 Water St., #185, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, on cradled board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1608146553846-HB013EH605ZISKGOUHPI/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Dusk in the pub 5 Water St., #184, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax on cradled board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1607980809028-I9ULPERWSROACTPN4XQX/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Missing the pub 5 Water St., #183, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, on cradled board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1607980220132-OSPI78T7DJE3GQJ1WEZM/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Skyline 5 Water St., #182, 30” x 48”, oil paint, oil pastel, pencil, on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1613671319874-DOVPFUMG3O8J369Z4BS7/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - We are here 5 Water St., #181, 60” x 48”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1606335743249-W0J2U17XND2XDIAHVHFB/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Untitled with girl #1 5 Water St., #180, 48” x 60”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 2020. A sub aquatic memory, these people keep walking through it. I watch them quietly so they don’t spook. In movies, women in the water are frightening, in real life they are a mystical treat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1605553659846-XY34KMZ39XRKE2FSBNPD/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Sanctuary - sold 5 Water St., Torrington, #178, 48” x 60”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, 2020. The second in this series, this is 20 East Main, downtown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1604510678602-BLFSL9CP6F07IKRWCA2B/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - The Warner - sold 5 Water St., Torrington, #177, 48" x 60", oil paint, wax, oil pastel, 2020. The first of a series celebrating downtown Torrington, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1602874545149-7F1WX1C40YW50RVY7DZM/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - The lighter side of quarantine 5 Water St., #176, 48” x 48”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1601141455828-CONYGQ2OQN09R1A4ZO0K/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Fall untitled #175 – diptych 137 Elmfield St., #175, two 12” x 12” panels, oil paint, wax, oil stick on cradled board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1600110583355-8CM3XUBD1HB7HXTDOXJX/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Ghost Y - diptych 137 Elmfield St., #174, 2 panels 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax on cradled board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1600015972259-8IK90UQE9HCKZWN0D6MS/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Spaceship with corduroy moon 137 Elmfield St., #172, 36” x 36”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, on canvas, 2020. Big sky with day time moon and spaceship, sometimes I paint like this at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1597596141089-A6I0IO9N9RB3D33MEK0Y/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Spaceship 137 Elmfield St., #169, 36” x 36”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, on canvas, 2020. Big sky with day time moon and spaceship, sometimes I paint like this at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1598973383917-7OBL8YBTQEK9Z9RIF9B5/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Fall abstract 137 Elmfield St., #137, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on cradled board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1597594738431-01Q7CP3TRMPYBO0218MR/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Logo 137 Elmfield St., #171, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, oil pastel on cradled board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1597593938157-O8J287N96U04QIZYP4JF/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Collapse 137 Elmfield St., #170, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on cradled board, 2020. The fourth in the Fork & Thorn series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1596825554204-HLUK6Q5Z6CJZU9S5QGVJ/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Fork and thorn #3, spotlight (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #168, 36” x 36”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1595878590126-FVPT30WLRSTEK90WVNV1/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Fork and thorn, #2 137 Elmfield St., #167, 48” x 48”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1595084822220-3FEX3OURTZRGFG3NLGCT/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Fork & thorn #1 137 Elmfield St., #166, 48” x 60”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2020. A study in unresolved dissent, maybe the first in a new series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1621518354914-ZLCI134KJ33EWDPQE0VG/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Ascension Water St. Studio, #200, 48” x 36”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1594135150832-7A88JI7DZR0GULYRWM2P/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Congruence 137 Elmfield St., # 165, 48” x 60”, oil paint, oil pastel, pencil, on canvas, 2020. www.markrichart.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1593266001928-FPSG5VCOVFKVPTAFK1MK/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Without malice 137 Elmfield St., #164, 48” x 60”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2020. There is change happening here, and conflict, but it is without malice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1591373972148-SRSKBBHMZL2ZC8KA27J5/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Free vacation - sold 137 Elmfield St., #163, 30” x 24”, oil paint, wax, pencil on canvas, 2020. It’s a prize, for winning the game. For not dying of Covid in the spring of 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1589551020535-V8CY34BOXION1XVU0ABA/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Connect 137 Elmfield St., #162, 30” x 24”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2020. Bars are still closed, but my darts are in the truck. Pimping my tricks, this subdued pallet forces the color to work harder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1588004198324-CCKAAUCEYM01CA0X35LZ/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Escape 137 Elmfield St., #161, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2020. Trying to keep the monster out of my creative process, it keeps knocking on the door. I think today it is trapped inside the TV, which is good. Little Feat is playing, I am sitting in, the gig is at the Commodore hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1587585031587-DHL25V50S3EA9VN1TLY3/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Flannel with kings blue 137 Elmfield St., #160, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1587051095313-IGNR5NWP3JSMC1ZE6XC0/mr159.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Arcade infographic 137 Elmfield St., #160, 48” x 48”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1585322298626-BCJZVLFPNJSZY4H2ND9Y/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Possible surrender - sold 137 Elmfield St., #158, 16” x 20”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1584800006277-VL41EEPDSPD0EZ0TAEUU/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Twilight – SOLD 137 Elmfield St., #157, 10” x 8”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2020. I make pictures… about stuff that happens, stuff that exists and stuff that doesn’t. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1584189605781-SQUGRV05ANZRO1MQ43JJ/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Simple Y in protest – SOLD 137 Elmfield St., #154, 10” x 10”, oil paint, wax, pencil, on cradled board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1584630265808-T9VYEH5IM5Q41DDBK5UM/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Plink 137 Elmfield St., #156, 10” x 10”, Oil paint, wax, pencil on cradled board, 2020. A small gesture, dedicated to play. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1584454935630-PZD5EZDYA39MFHEBXWY6/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Pause Repair 137 Elmfield St., #155, Oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 10” x 10”, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1583423007162-MG3LIZ9NA6DRHS3IXJNM/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Pentatonic Intent 137 Elmfield St., #153, oil paint, wax, pencil on cradled board, 12” x 12” 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1583246097614-WDFD5BNMZKOKSE1LR84S/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Inquiry 137 Elmfield St., #152, oil paint, wax, pencil on canvas, 24” x 24”, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1582720127164-F2OWJQUQT8EOK7N8SB3F/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Proud Y Proud Y 137 Elmfield St., #151, 24” x 24”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1581540957882-698YDH37BNPRPXZNVAES/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Congruence #150, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 36” x 48”, 2020. These two very different shapes, finding in each other a perfect fit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1581021156216-O3O1ZHZ5JT7IHTLIYIFG/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Behind the facade #149. Oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 30” x 48”, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1579792583246-B9JQPPC1JSOAVOHZLDX2/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Smoke #148, 30” x 48, Oil paint & wax on canvas, 2020. History tells the story, of life we leave behind new things cover old, they thought we wouldn’t mind https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1578593231784-952B76GHRUJ8L6VVDOK3/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Shy-Y 137 Elmfield St., #145, 36” x 48”, oil & wax on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1577637048049-2G1LORTRCD9H42H0VLP2/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Y with crow #145, 30” x 48”, oil & wax on canvas, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1576101369794-7GLNGBJWYB0KKHUPUQVZ/mr144untitled_w_Y.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Untitled with Y 60”x 48”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1579035187163-U0X1LVAYYDV37TNAXOPL/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - moby worm 137 Elmfield St. #147, 18” x 24”, oil paint & wax on board, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1576434489794-D782M02PNFVGHXTLH2EG/mr100_12_13_19revss.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Riffing in fours 48 x 36, oil & wax on canvas, 121319 revision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1576100738097-ZG018KXOP843LJRYQ6EG/mr101rev12_11_19.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Spider House 2 36” x 48”, oil paint, wax, oil crayon, pencil, on canvas, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1576960864895-75EBW58NNGWLQJTMK2QT/143a.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - untitled with Y #2 - SOLD #143, 36” x 80”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel on luan door, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1572535776188-6OR9V2T5WKKWCYXBR3I6/mr_142sohowalls2.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Soho walls 2, the eighties 137 Elmfield St., #142, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on stretched linen, 64” x 64”. The first of three this size destined for my show at the Chase Gallery, JCC West Hartford, in February 2020. A wonderful big open space, am filling it with color and optimism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1569254430925-F6M30ZWLISPV0Y2F9SBK/elm140soho.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Soho Soho – SOLD #140, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 48” x 72”, 2019. www.markrichart.org. My father used to take me to Soho from the late sixties right up until i moved there in 1979. We’d hit all the galleries on West Broadway, then have lunch at the Spring Street Bar. Sometime around 1972 I noticed that women wore mini skirts. This was the moment when art, sex, post New York School abstract expressionism, urbanism, protest and a healthy disrespect for authority all came together and I became the little bastard I am today. A genuine weirdo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1572536583158-MPV74T3WBXGMAJKQIS01/mr_windows141.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Windows 137 Elmfield St., #141, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 60” x 48”, 2019. Dots and spots, the color of candy. Up close, its a lot of short stories. Back up and its the collective, all of our stories en route to somewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1567784039549-92GJEUS9UR9W5Z149D8G/elm139.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Corn Abstract #8 - sold 137 Elmfield St., #139, oil paint, wax, pencil on board, 18” x 24”, 2019. Kandinsky talked about color in a spiritual way. I have to read that stuff over and over for it to sink in. But when it does, those ideas can layer up and yield something unexpected. Something easier explained with a trumpet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1566576017499-DPI8JOT6VWFCVAZNX91F/elm138underthehorizon.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Under the horizon 137 Elmfield St., #138, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 48”x36”, 2019. Off in the distance, the big ones wait for the show to start. The gig is on, it’s all good, hope we get paid… and it does smell like Lou dog in the van. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1576957222674-3REWS3C7AYS2RWARI5YY/elm137.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Vessel 137 Elmfield St., #137, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 60” x 48”, 2019. Some magic going on here, the vessel contains what? A genie? or apocalypse… Thalidomide angel listens to our thoughts, we anticipate the response. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1564072983770-JB2RU9NV1LLKMC7Z0HO3/elm136pentatonic.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Pentatonic Intention 137 Elmfield St., #136, oil, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 48”x60”, 2019. The blues, a simple chord progression topped with a solo. The pentatonic scale is the melodic environment for that musical idea. As an ideology, it has given us rock and roll, film noir, and good poetry. I believe, it embodies the great ironies of the human condition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1563304209178-ILZEH1RMZT180AM6S6FF/elm135corn_abstract%238.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Corn Abstract - Another Secret Place 137 Elmfield St., #135, oil paint, wax, oil crayon, pencil on canvas, 48” x 60”, 2019. Slipping from the conscious into the unconscious the cartoon plays on in my head. Come on in, it’s fun in here and no one will ever know, unless you tell them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1576957277782-8SDCSDFTLDK8VEO17WAA/elm133pinball.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Pinball 137 Elmfield St., #133, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, on canvas, 48”x 36”. We used to hang around the Teen Center in East Hampton when we were kids, playing pinball and watching the older kids shoot pool. Sneaking beers and learning to smoke, we dropped our coins into the juke box, spinning the 45’s that would become anthems, we etched out a soundtrack for the greatest summer ever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1561124075950-7AZT02UXG5QBBEDYYT5G/elm132bowlorama.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Bowl o rama 137 Elmfield St., #132, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil, on canvas, 48” x 36”, 2019. Bowling, fast cars and cheap beer, the waitress at the diner is on roller skates and she’s a looker. It’s rock and roll, and the freedom to mix it all together. Epic summer anthems, staying up until dawn, hoping your brothers & fathers come back from Viet Nam standing up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1576957341766-4Z8PE856LJETVR7GICED/elm131wesport1.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Westport 1 – (SOLD) This is the first of at least eight destined for the Wesport Library reopening gala, in October, 2019. The show is rock n’ rolled themed, the opening to be an epic dance party. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1576957407485-B4312E8QPNBK57YRSKCD/elm129poster.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - The poster 137 Elmfield St., #129, 48”x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2019. I didn’t see the movie but I remember the poster, and the walls in soho. Stencil artists working at night, need to have a look out. They threw a kid with a spray can off a roof in queens, the people with him got mad and stayed that way. Renee made wooden toys back then so we asked him, who is the best artist now? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1556384101657-EBNCKTKDOEMSXGEC5CAH/elm130liquortalks.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - When the liquor talks 137 Elmfield St., #130, 48” x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2019. This is another movie poster, film yet to be produced. A tragic comedy full of attractive misery and tolerable demise. Our star, the artist and his motley group of bar buddies attempt to solve the worlds problems from inside the bottle. It’s a madcap journey through short and entertaining lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1576957420919-AZ2PLNUJQV6YZE4L18G7/elm128theroad.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - The road 137 Elmfield St., #128, 10” x 10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2019 Trying to escape from somewhere, most times, the road will take you where you need to go. Other times, it’s nettles be damned, short cuts the only way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1553346429635-XKLVCP1MTPOOQIKYJ5U8/elm127TV.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Teleoldvision 137 Elmfield St., #127, 10” x10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2019. It’s been a long winter, we watched a lot of TV. It’s more cinematic than it was when we were kids, and now we know, that there are no people inside. The pixels blink on and off to make the puppets move. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1576957478388-LOJ2YIN2GSX8Y90RZLMF/elm126backward.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Backwards five – a romance 137 Elmfield St., #126, 10”x10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2019. Backwards five is probably a robot, or a one armed man in a cardboard costume, and not a young one either. Futurama teaches us that emotional robots, fueled by alcohol, can get lucky too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1552572844958-A33M8I58TVWTKKUU5GO2/elm124dogtower.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Dogtower 137 Elmfield St., #124, 10” x 10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2019. A temple of sorts, maybe. A secret society like the masons, but they are wrenches. The canine is a mystery, probably a good one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1552838937940-00RHSF5IS82VUN0W2GHY/elm125pylercoming.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Pyler Coming 137 Elmfield St., #125, 10” x10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2019. When my oldest daughter was maybe three, one of her first self-appointed jobs was to find all the spiders in the house and keep me posted as to their whereabouts and activity. When one of them seemed about ready to attack she would announce to me with great concern, pyler coming. That was my cue to find a magazine and dispatch the monster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1552063897484-I1H6ULD2S3NAUXU3VAB0/elm123faith.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Faith – SOLD 137 Elmfield St., #123, 14” x 11”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2019. For the greater good we congregate, leaving malice at the door talk about our heroes, heal the sick & feed the poor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1587746634500-S12B9RO4VFVGCC6GI2IQ/em122middlehaddam.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Middle Haddam - sold 137 Elmfield St., #122, 24” x 30”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil no canvas, 2019. This is my place, I carry it around with me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1551387837705-QM07AMC9W3IMPEXITB8I/elm21surprise.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Surprise 137 Elmfield St., #121, 24” x 30”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2019. Letting the unexpected happen is harder then it sounds. History tries to repeat itself and new ideas seem fragile against the tide of old ones. Listening to funk, trying out some new steps, keeping it fresh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1548864205048-WBVB094FOJJNJJGY6DZW/elm118mixedmessage.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Mixed Message Landscape 137 Elmfield St., #118, 24”x 30”, Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. There is graffiti from the seventies in the field. It escaped the A train, wafted through the tunnels, drifted up Bruckner Boulevard and made its way to New England. We hope they like it here, Samo and Fishbone Posse are long gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1549052088871-PUR8O0F8OPFIX334EVSC/elm119lightlife.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Light and Life (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #119, 14” x 11”, oil, wax, oil pastel, inkjet on cradled board, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1547243608081-HHU63M5ANMNOCJB8MPOD/elm115teacher.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - The Teacher (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #115, 8” x 8”, Oil, wax, pencil on board, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1546877538447-3MXWTB8ZND90SZZRSDUW/elm116gaspump.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Gas Pump 137 Elmfield St., #116, 8.5” x 10.5”, oil, wax, pencil on board, 2018. In the summertime I worked in gas stations as a kid in the mid seventies. Pumping gas, doing oil changes, fixing flats. My friends would hang around sometimes, and it was fantastic to be a teenager, with a motorcycle, working that job. Cars would role in, the bell would clang… can I clean your windshield today? In the afternoons, when it slowed down, we drank Welch’s grape soda and talked about girls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1545664175697-L0AF9DW15233WQ6JZF6P/elm113concerto.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Concerto in D (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #113, 24” x 12”, oil, wax, oil pastel, steel rod on board, 2018. Trying to avoid the obvious, there is bent metal attached to this. A torch and two pairs of pliers to make branding irons. Am sort of interested in the shadow behind the center one. The movement is all Josef Myslivecek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1544614602680-QRJOJEEP17WCEZYW70PG/elm112polio.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Polio Hospital, Roosevelt Island, NYC - (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #112, 16” x 20”, oil, wax, oil pastel on cradled board, 2018. When Elvia and I were in our twenties, we used to hang around this place. It was a genuine ruin, a couple of the stairways were still intact you could get up top and look back at Long Island City. A great spot for artists looking for inspiration. I don’t think we knew it was a polio hospital, we assumed it was an insane asylum… though both make good stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1546877114766-9NL2YOT51VZDSCOB3SF9/elm114bbirdoverred.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Blackbirds over Redville 137 Elmfield ST., #114, 8.5” x 17.5” x , oil, wax, oil pastel on pine board, 2018. These blackbirds live in the pines behind our house. They make sounds like old rusty fence hinges, and are aggressive to other birds. Their tail feathers are shaped differently, they can maneuver in tight spaces, turning, stalling, and reversing abruptly. It makes them appear mechanical at first, robot birds from somewhere else. I like them, like bitters in a Manhattan, up, no fruit please. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1544047823141-KVJMAF14SYKX65K93ZR5/elm111pointofview.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Point of view 137 Elmfield St., #111, 10” x 10”, oil, wax, oil pastel on cradled board, 2018. All looking at part of the same thing, and seeing something different. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1543509820906-6BSC26K7KE7380QLJJNF/elm110raheem.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Raheem (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #110, 10” x 8”, Oil, wax, pencil on cradled board, 2018. My old friend Raheem is at it again, fishing past dusk… his favorite part of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1543328201375-56L5FQOIYI6IIK15Z1NV/elm109blackbird.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Blackbird over Cattails (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #109, 10” x 8”, Oil, wax, pencil on cradled board, 2018 There is more to this insomnia gig than just sleep walking. It’s about being able to tell the difference between an idea, and a real thing… even though they both feel the same. About knowing if you are floating or falling… that’s a big one. If your just getting into this thing, work on that one first. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1542749186329-BNTB9V10NKA5SV6JWKIM/elm108corn5.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Corn Abstract #5, Mescaline Moonlight (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #108, 12”x12”, oil & wax on cradled board, 2018 Just past Harvest Moon, its October, and nothing really looks like this. But a memory of a thing can take on a life of its’ own. Which poses the question, “Why not dream in color?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1542483411794-UN0ZGPDAICT0VGGAU2S2/elm107reunion.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Reunion 137 Elmfield St., #107, 24” x 18”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2018. Sometimes ideas don’t hold still long enough for me to get them down. That tip in, is a print of a big painting I did in the mid eighties. The character is the Apex Welder. He has spent his life in the tunnels under the NYC subway system welding and repairing infrastructure. The rate of rot is such that he will never finish his chore, or see the light of day again. He will stand in a shower of sparks, trying to make things better for eternity. He is bolted to this painting, in a permanent reunion with those that followed him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1541605014520-AH3N82WIVNHFVRASVJEU/elm106cornabstract3.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Corn Abstract #3 (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #106, 11” x 16”, oil, wax, oil pastel on cradled board, 2018. Fly fishing at night, alone, has it’s challenges. It does not look like this, it is black and scary, which is wonderful. The sounds are amplified, a familiar place feels foreign. Time slows to a crawl, something flying bumps into you, but you cannot flee… because at the end of your line, out where you can’t see, there is a tug. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1541084359534-K1ANHU4PPLIKVDGOK2UA/elm104change.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Change 137 Elmfield St., #104, 18” x 24”, Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2018. This started out as a stream of consciousness painting. I received an email from a design client I’ve had since 1996. They decided to give the work I’ve been doing all these years to the new agency. Not unusual at all but it shook me, and this is the result. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1539184198006-BOMZJJ6MG6FTSR1F5PP0/elm102meditation.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Meditation 137 Elmfield St., #102, 24” x 18”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2018. $425 I watched this one spider all summer, took photos of her, thought about her a lot. Every morning, up around five thirty watching her clock out at work. She kept her legs tight to her body when hanging in the web hunting, all night. Just as the sun started to come up she’d stretch out her long legs and move to the soffit to nap away the day. It was a good feeling knowing she was tucked away there, protected from the birds while I painted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1534968818212-F1UAL8GQW9LOLVPYD5E7/elm99ritual.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Ritual (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #99, 36” x 48”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas 8/22/18. A little haunty, some possession of a place. Technical things shoring up some kind of action, an inferred logic, bar coded to something. Things seem so much simpler at a distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1540216193130-U0A2N32E7IUFUIYYG4LZ/elm103cornabstrct2.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Corn Abstract #2 (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #103, 24” x 18”, oil & wax on cradled board, 2018. Am inside the corn looking out here. I took the photo for the drawing along the Farmington river, a couple hundred yards downstream from the Kolp Gardens. Met some fish that day, and an old black lab with a gooey tennis ball. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1540304344243-0XBOUQCJ1G66IIC3UV1Q/elm105dambienthope.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Ambient Hope (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #105, 20” x 20”, Oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 2018. Not the kind of hope sold on TV, this one isn’t waiting for your contribution or your vote. It exists in code, four pieces of Myriad Pro condensed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1533150155867-UTCU5HPNA8UBYN5TCJQ1/elm96connect.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Connections 137 Elmfield St., #96, 20” x 20”, Oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 7/31/2018. It’s not always obvious how and why things are connected. This might be a landscape, a densely populated two dimensional space. Maybe it will open if you push on it, like the door behind the closet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1533150280810-JK4VDO35MUBRXD1S7NTH/elm97summer2018.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Summer 2018 137 Elmfield St., #97, 20” x 20”, Oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on cradled board, 7/31/2018. Am working outdoors this summer and its hotter than it should be. Tropical in CT, might be time to move north… although it is easier just to think about it and acclimate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1535313616334-PTNYRJ8OVDZY9ZLOQCIE/elm98theheat.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - The Heat 137 Elmfield St., #98, 48”x48”, Oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, August 2018. Sort of reflective, but the reflection is not a mirror image, it’s been diluted by the things underneath it. The heat lurks over my easel, it blurs my thoughts, melting wax and time, it all runs together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1530893333798-NN7H638XT9EI914MPZMR/elm93heatwave.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Heat wave (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #93, oil wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 48” x 60”, 7/6/18. Michael Loew taught an abstract painting class at SVA when I was there. He was a wonderful guy and a good painter near the end of his career. He wore an ascot and pulled it off flawlessly, standing there helping me make little copies of his work. I kept thinking about him all through this one, not sure why. My oldest daughter gave birth to our first grandchild yesterday and I think a lot of this is about the process of growing a human being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1529013546979-IO9DN1PIGCJZP0T8OOED/elm92tickcircus.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Tick circus A scene from a play or a really good commercial, we are looking out into the distance. The sugar maple in our backyard has been dumping its helicopter seeds like snow all around my easel. I think the shapes in the background reflect those seeds. The bugs are an old story. Twenty years ago, I was sitting at my favorite bar, and pulled eight ticks off me and set them on the bar next to my beer. As they started to wander away I redirected them to walk in a circle. Excited about my tick circus I called the bartender, my friend Stefanee Grano over to see them. She was not happy with my pets, or me and asked me to leave as quickly as possible. I collected my critters and moved on, learning a lesson in what is socially acceptable and what is not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1527181952539-FGDLNJCNM16KHL76V0O3/elm91across.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Across the field 137 Elmfield St., #91, 48”x60”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas I wrote this story about a little battle. Some people kill some other people and take all their stuff, “They are getting close. We can see them moving in the grass across the field, soon we will be gone. The story is stitched into the sky.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1531945770114-EKCIE7JVGSNXZ2NW32QK/elm94ontheloom.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - On the Loom (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #94, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 48” x 60”, 7/18/18. My mother brushed her giant dog and kept the hair in bags. She spun yarn from the wool, strung up a loom, threw the shuttle and wove tapestry from the lot. She was good on the potters wheel, made baskets from sticks, and never stopped knitting the whole time we were growing up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1609944854849-RU7JHMNY317GUMMMONND/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Evening fireplug 5 Points Studio, 12” x 12”, oil paint, wax on cradled board, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1526057260429-9JBZH8UFIQZRV7XM0TJC/elm90return.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Returning to the present (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #90, 48” x 60”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 5/11/18. Returning to the familiar, a visual comfort zone. Finding things where you left them and wondering why it’s all still here. A man loses his studio, job, money, and finally his mind in 2010. Eight years later he stumbles into this painting and finds his marbles mostly intact. Now what? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1524771669165-XDA9A3AA5ASKEJJFCGOG/elm88fourthings.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Four Things - sold 137 Elmfield St., #88, 12”x12”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 4/26/18. These sort of look like beer taps to me, which makes me think of how much I like barstools… and happy hour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1524261671661-ACBKP84IUEJ8N5NNVYX0/elm85red.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Red 137 Elmfield St., #85, 8”x10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board, 4/20/18. An inferno? Or just the machinations of some emotional struggle. A nice witch once told me you can read things in fire, like tea leaves. That is true if your watching your barn burn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1524261749207-G8RBQ9DSZIQF3SU7CHOT/elm82icehouse.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Ice House 137 Elmfield St., #82, 11”x16”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board Have never enjoyed ice fishing. Especially the style where you lay on the ice and stare into a hole. The snow blows over you and anyone that sees you assumes you are dead. The other way happens in these wonderful little shacks that are drug out on the ice. These are heated, hold four people, who bring food, booze, smoke and tiny ice fishing rods. A nice way to spend a few hours outside, in the winter, without a damn shovel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1523978466763-LLI3COZOTFEVT9TYZZ7R/elm81moonlight.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Moonlight 137 Elmfield St., #81, 11”x14”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board, 4/14/18. Being outside, at night is wonderful. More so with fireflies than taxi cabs, but thats just me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1524603754234-8UD9C8WVBUOCXZ67H3RO/elm87eighties.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - The Eighties 137 Elmfield St., #87, 8”x10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board, 4/24/18. This is how it looked in the 1980’s, but big, seven feet tall. Emergent artists trying to get into the big juried museum shows. Picking up where our heroes left off, looking for the next step into oblivion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1523462357613-EJ8BRA30T9QZ5ASOHRL0/elm79fences.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Fences (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #79, 11”x14”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board, 4/12/18. People who own land protect their stuff with fences. They tell the viewer, this is not yours, don’t try to stand here. There are signs to reiterate that. Some of the signs list the stuff you cannot do. You may not trespass, you may not hunt or fish… you are allowed to be shot if you ignore one of those signs. I hope this fence doesn’t say that. I hope this fence says, climb over here and experience this place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1523045800326-AWQV5GM4G8NMYPE35GNX/elm77backsplash.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Backsplash 137 Elmfield St., #77, 11”x14”, oil, wax, oil crayon, pencil on board, 4/6/18. This is a direct response to my old friend Tom Kinder and his post of a backsplash behind the paint shaking machine at some big store. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1523046070726-9ROCOC7KK93XQPS8W1KZ/elm78static.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Static 137 Elmfield St., #78, 11”x14”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1522856435560-7LYI2UNXFMZSADDSHP0T/elm76toledo.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Toledo One-foot 137 Elmfield St., #76, 18”x24”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 4/4/18. He was a ranch hand, a cowboy, preacher and a dad Hand caught in the picker, made his family sad Was a snake that bit the foot, too far to make the doc Neighbor took the foot off to beat the reapers clock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1523393637341-XP8FZDB2LCXDW6HY0T3Y/elm80grasscurtain.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Grass Curtain 137 Elmfield St., #80, 11” x16”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board, 4/10/18. Swallowed by obscurity, hidden behind the grass curtain, there are gauges in here. A bleeder valve hisses in the back, a steamy humid night. Carnival dancers in the street, lurching toward dawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1521908440508-G04UZ9WNV40Z643N4H8Q/elm75usedpart.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Used parts 137 Elmfield St., #75, 8” x10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas Thats the Apex welder, smoking. He’s getting older, stuff starts to break down. A regular at the Egyptian organ market, he is shopping for a heart. If they’re all out here, he’ll try the butcher. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1521908353777-M3L5T053TTHLTBHA67V3/elm74waytowork.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - On the way to work 137 Elmfield St., #74, 8”x10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board, 3/23/18. Sometimes you have to make room for your own thoughts. That is harder then it seems, we are pumped full of other peoples ideas so aggresively its hard to know whats yours and whats not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1521563792768-V7N81AYPNRBAQ1FW8OLR/elm73morningwalk.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Morning Walk 137 Elmfield St., #73, 8” x 10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board, 3/20/18 When everything is fresh and clear, ideas feel new and the possibilities are endless. Not every morning but some, and just one of those will peel the bark off a bad day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1521207892142-FX8YOW99VKNX861FPJ4Y/elm72shed.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - The shed 137 Elmfield St., #72, 8”x10”, oil, wax, oil crayon, pencil on board They always smelled good, like old leather, oil, sometimes rust. If you are a woodchuck, under the floor is a great place to live. I work in a shed alot, as a tinker. Bent over my workbench it is branded from countless welds, watching the slag until it burns out. Each one a little volcano in a kerosene soaked stick building, I am careful. It is full of hand tools, grinders, sanders, a drill press and saws. The vice bolted to the table is old and marred, the electricity is fine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1520791147928-P9AMC218SGPLSFMDZGE8/elm71pawnshop.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Pawnshop (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #71, 18”x 24”, oil, wax, oil crayon on canvas, 3/11/18. Smoking, drinking, making mistakes. The rent is always due so you pawn the little bit of stuff you have. A city full of people miscalculating the power of optimism. Everybody knows the value of everything now. There’s no dusty Gibson in the corner, no magic lamp, the genies have left the planet. But there used to be secrets in these places. Pennies on the buck for an instrument soaked in blood and tears that you could own… until the rent is due. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1520367497366-U5PYKG600TEF0TKLRMEL/elm70cornmirage.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Corn Mirage (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #70, 20”x16”, oil, wax, oil pastel on board, 2/28/18 If you stare at anything it starts to change. Hunting at dusk, a little stump turns into a woodchuck. A fur collar on a winter coat looks like a whitetail deer as it moves in the shadows. Corn turns into crow, then alien, then ghost, then back into corn. You chuckle at hair standing, a mosquito brings you back. That old truck is a beaut, rust, leaks and all. When I look at something and recognize it, I see it that way forever. If i don’t recognize it, I see it differently each time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1519225483418-VU0Y8AKJZ2OA5HP4WTX9/elm69cornabstract.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Corn Abstract (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #69, 20” x 20”, oil, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 2/21/18 This field of corn has very different personalities depending on the time of day or night. It holds a kind of tension in the dusk. A good bear waddles out of it, crosses the path and heads down to the river to fish. We share some of the same spots, am always pleased to see him first. He is a patient bear, waiting for me to get out of the river before he gets into it. Unusual as bears don’t often wait for things, they cut the line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1517765064417-VJ0C5RGLJ09IG35RLO8Q/bluecorn.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - blue corn (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #67, 8”x10”, oil, wax, pencil, inkjet on paper, 2/4/18. The sound of corn. When I paint the stuff I don’t think about light and dark, line and fill. I think about the way it feels walking through it. Endless trailing fingertips gently inquiring. If you could only pause for a moment to answer. We almost never do. You keep moving and it whispers to your shadow, we are here, we are waiting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1517326686937-OPKG0175QAIFXB3NJ27W/elm66redcorn.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Red corn (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #66, 8”x10”, oil, oil pastel, wax, inkjet, pencil on board, 1/30/18 Corn is a big deal around here, it marks the progress of summer. “Knee high by the fourth of July,” they say. I liked that movie where my father’s baseball heroes walked out of the corn to play on the the farmers diamond. He said, “build it and they will come.” So powerfully optimistic it’s fun to think about. And ghosts in a cornfield? Thats just butter on toast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1516809016775-ZGW8B9X6IGUG9JLJHLQM/elm64beneath.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Beneath 137 Elmfiled St., #64, 20” x 20”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 1/24/18 The under story always feels aquatic to me. The questions might have to do with water, the answers definitely do. Looking behind or under something seems like a good place to find things. The question, “what is important?” never stops seeming relevant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1516808897816-60LTCAVJH4ZHZQ5652QT/elm63audience.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - The Audience 137 Elmfield St., #63, 8.5”x10”, Oil, wax, oil crayon, pencil on board, 1/16/18 As a musician, I have not always been kind to my audience. Badly written music sung off key, wrong notes during the solo. And not just a little bad, but big loud epic clinkers that are so dissonant stuff comes out of the bass players nose. But like most things, the best stories are rarely about success. markrichart.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1515944438709-F97QQ2N3UKAPTVRL90LX/elm62bckyrd.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - The Backyard 8” x 10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, inkjet, pencil on masonite, 1/15/18. For me it was the American Dream. A house with a backyard, one parent working, the other home with the kids. I can still hear them playing… lots of them. Dogs barking, prairie home companion on the radio, food cooking, my neighbors big voice yelling at his boys. He had one of those whistles you do with fingers in the mouth. So loud his kids could hear it anywhere in the neighborhood. We complained about our taxes and auto repair. Tools on the driveway, station wagon up on jacks. It was never too hot, and never too cold, and all the children were above average. www.markrichart.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1515533833343-4A2A96FI71G27CRHG4Q6/elm61lookagain.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - look again 24” x 30”, oil, wax, pastel, pencil on canvas, 1/9/18 Closer you look the more you see, under the mask you’ll find me. Please old crow forgive me, no reason that you should. The maker told the reaper, to nail his hands to wood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1517154390983-7X0MZ2VM1IIPHYG0HY37/elm65outofwater.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Out of water (sold) 137 Emfield St., #65, 8”x10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, inkjet, pencil on board, 1/26/18 An homage to a place that does not belong to me but when I am there, under the right circumstances it feels like mine. That happens a half dozen times a year. And since this is all really about enlightenment it occurs to me that the difficulty of that mission is tempered by a good sense of humor. Laughing out loud at your own troubles is a testament to walking in the right direction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1513786962545-C7AU4JUTZSTMAT5WUMJR/lm60nirvana.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Nirvana 137 Elmfield St. #60, 24” x 30”, oil, wax, oil pastel, ink jet, pencil on canvas. 12/20/17 It is about the fish, but also this place. The time spent there, the sounds of the water, birds of prey competing for food. If I had to throw myself out of the sky, face first into a river to eat i wouldn’t do it. I’d be a lazy bird, slothfully eating dead squirrel by the side of the road, then maybe over to Mcdonald’s for some fries. The better birds would trash my name and that would be fine. But to be human, with a fly rod, on a sunny day in June when the water is perfect, middle of the week and not another living soul on the river… is a life well spent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1515534072934-2S9TRK2M8VQSPRMN3XUV/elm59underitall.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Under it All 137 Elmfield St., #59, 24”x 30”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil, toner, vellum on canvas. A simple interrogation. Behind a forced laugh and the taste of metal, a fist slams into your head in a cold room. You wonder why, but just for a second. Because why is not an adult question and the answer leads you deeper into a basement no one wants to be in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1515534137643-EKP3KBY9D5EM28LC75PZ/elm58storiesground.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Stories from the ground (sold) 137 Elmfield St., #58, 24”x 30”, oil, wax, oil crayon, pencil on canvas Thinking about landscapes, fields and grass. Sometimes when things are just right you can look out over a field and be in the picture. Its a different way of experiencing a place, more than an observation. All the senses come together and the richness of it hits you like an epiphany. These are delicate moments, and everything in modern life tries to drown them out. There are stories to be heard, and if you are quiet they will come out of the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1512144881945-BD6Y9RX6FY49IO628G34/elm57accusation.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Accusation 137 Elmfield St., #57, 12”x12”, oil, wax, oil crayon, pencil on canvas Wrench has stepped into the fray, confronting authority, exposing fraud and injustice, he gestures toward the man behind the curtain with an outstretched wing. www.markrichart.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1515534214763-XVXYK5ZCRPNFN71F7PHE/elm55alongfarmy.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Along the Farmington 137 Elmfield St., #55, 24” 24”, oil, wax, oil crayon, pencil on canvas, 11/27/17 If you pull into the Kolp Gardens and park on right, under the poison ivy tree you can see the path heading downstream. The cornfield will be on your right, animals will spook and run across your path as they bolt out of the stalks. It might be six hundred yards or a little more down that path theres an opening in the brush on your left, you can slide into the water there, under the canopy of a big maple. The ford is easy if the water isn’t too high, walk downstream below the island until the water is waist high, theres some wood to your right. This fish lives there, and he’ll take a size fourteen zug bug if your lucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1515534272499-MLZHUP6IWHVL74UAR6I3/raheemflyfish.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Raheem is flyfishing 137 Elmfield St., #54. 24”x24”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas Raheem is not from here, he has discovered fly fishing and digs it. He is thinking about jazz and that maybe this is not such a bad planet after all, you just have to avoid the schmucks. He is thinking after his tour he might move back here with his family. Maybe to Lebanon CT, or Prineville OR. The carp and black dace are wonderful and the natives don’t seem to care about them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1509479069292-377DO6AQ56L85PSWZHFU/elm53carptown.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Carpville 137 Elmfield St., #53. 24”x24”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 10/31/17 Its halloween, I don’t think this painting has anything to do with that. It does have a carp in it, who i met on the Farmington river one afternoon after he bit my zug bug. A very pleasant meeting I set him free when we were done. He seemed pretty indignant about it and indicated that it would be the last. www.markrichart.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1515534319676-1NUAPN2E0YH69TJ0HGM9/elm52_onthemend.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - On the Mend (SOLD) 137 Elmfield St., #52, 20” x 20”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 10/18/17 I don’t know how wrench lost his leg. This was supposed to be about a sense of place. How many things do you need to create a place? Not just a landscape but something that looks like it is in motion, where things are happening. The sort of thing a memory or fantasy could stick to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1515534435993-S3BX0USHS57TMZ0QRWQA/elm51birdhep.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Birdie and the Hepcats 137 Elmfield St., #51. 20” x 20”, Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 10/8/17. It was a schematic, a design for all those transistors and capacitors. Patch it all together and turn it up. The music makes its own electricity. We are listening to Junior Brown, and his rockabilly surfer slide guitar with vibrato. Twang Deluxe hides here cuz he’s wanted by the police, and my wife thinks he’s dead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1506178247020-AY77G2WEHC495K6ILG9Z/elm50.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Sitting on eggs 137 Elmfield St., #50, 20” x 20”, Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 7/21/17. It's fall, my favorite time of year. When I was a kid adults seemed to talk about the weather all the time and I thought that was weird. Now, it is very clear to me. A nice day with a little breeze is a gift, it is the kindest thing the universe can bestow on its creatures and I am grateful. A long time ago Elvia and I worked in a mannequin factory in Long Island City. Sometimes we painted life size toucans. At the end of the day you could look across the big studio, and see a dozen of these toucans, their beaks identical and pointed toward the sky. That was a pretty good job. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1505412514045-ERQ1OKYEF50CL70KG6M4/elm48celebration.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Celebration (sold) 137 Elmfield Street, #48, 9/14/17. 12” x 12”, oil, wax, oil pastel on canvas. Music, champagne, people talking & laughing, glasses clinking, applause for a great toast. Late in the summer color is vivid, the taste and smell of changing seasons bright and clear. A perfect place for sweet corn and mosquitos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1504119243938-NENESX77RNXEIXSLBQCW/col46_lastdaycamp.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Last day of camp 119 Colonial St., #46, 8/30/17. 20” x 20”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas Moving out of the summer studio, feels like the last day of camp. Milk crates full of spiders, old rags, couple of trash bags. I can hear the roofers across the street, theres a bluejay out here hollering back at their nail guns. Garden in its last stages, still a few big yellows on there. Thought about croquet when i started this, and the sound of the mallet on the ball. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1502740029562-22XDHOKH2MHHPYFGD5LW/col44raheem.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Raheem at Harvest 12”x12”, oil & wax on canvas   This one is unusual for me in that it is singular in its narrative. It is harvest, Raheem is pleased, his work has payed off and even the crow is joyful. He may or may not be human. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1502739719779-YWQSGIE7SOEDPJ9JLM4Y/col43wrenchpyramid.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Wrench & Pyramid 12”x12”, oil & wax on canvas     A small painting, a foot square. Wrench looks like he is swimming or flying to me, those things look and feel similar. The other characters, symbols and complexities are familiar. There is more than one thing happening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1501866064479-RV378TMI04WD7H2CNZI1/col42walker.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Walker 119 Colonial St. #42, 8/4/17. 36”x36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. Walker has no eyes and no face. He is a wrench, he has wings and feet and he is thinking about everything that has ever happened on earth. He is concerned about the human condition but because he fixes things he is optimistic. Unaffected by chaos, immune to impatience, he is meditative and possibly enlightened. He is capable of flight but today chooses to walk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1504801816479-F31I629UEO4BEZJ3DI6N/elm47smalltownrev.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Small Town Reverie 137 Elmfield St., #47, 9/7/17. 20”x20”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas Little towns around train sets in the sixties, Middle Haddam in the winter, my father said he grew up in a Rockwell painting and didn’t know it. I never knew anyone with rosey cheeks, the holiday brings more booze and all of a sudden it’s The Last Picture Show. Sweeping, the push broom makes a sound like waves on the street in front of the deserted pool hall. You can’t hear for the wind, and the dust makes it hard to care. The boy was never right anyway. www.markrichart.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1501866143161-70HDGGN7DJ55GFQKI39R/thisledtothat.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - This leads to that 119 Colonial St., #41, 7/26/17. 36”x36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas   Theres a long list of names for this one. It has an aquatic feel to me, there is a net in there, lots of stuff caught in the net. I thought this was an environmental painting, scolding us all, but now i don’t see it that way. I think its more about the things we do, the stuff we have and how all that effects everything. We had a heat wave here in CT as this one developed. I thought it might be about that, it was around a 100° in the studio. Kept wishing there was water to jump into, maybe thats what this one is referring to. And maybe all that stuff is not a query, just an observation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1504119444456-EK9GMNU405MLIJSDDYMG/col45harvest_eclipse.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Harvest Eclipse (sold) 119 Colonial St., #45. 36” x 36”, Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 8/22/17   Summer is burning by fast. Gardens are giving up their fruits & vegetables, it’s still hot but there is a temporary quality to the heat. As a kid this is the time you start getting nervous about the upcoming school year. Days are getting shorter, you play harder, stay out longer. Summer romance heats to the boiling point, it’s days numbered. Grass is tan, ground is hard and under all that, the planet works furiously to feed its people. Yesterday there was an eclipse, it was not dramatic in CT, it got a little dark, just for a bit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1501866197489-NDNHDIA9YNQTBM87KMTU/col40kerrysgrdn.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Short Story - Kerry's Garden 20” x 20”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. 119 Colonial St. #40, 7/15/17.   Kerry’s garden is exploding, it shoots up out of the ground like a fierce geyser. It is spitting food into the atmosphere, a volcano of sustenance. There are rabbits all over the yard and they won’t take a bite, not one. If they got close enough one of those tomato plants would snatch and strangle it in a second. At night all the plants come to life and run around the neighborhood frightening dogs and bats. None of them wear sneakers but that does not slow them down. Sometimes if i get there early, they are all still panting, soaked with sweat from the exertion, the earth freshly turned from the harried rerooting. It is not easy for a plant to do that. In colonial times, Kerry would be hung, shot or burned alive for opening the door to hell. Theres a pepper plant in there with a tiny human head… that one in particular deserves mention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1499805634987-ENHT2AITYB68KT2021ZI/col39shortstories.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Short Stories 119 Colonial #39, 20” x 20”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas 7/17/17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1499530198559-CQ8ZX13ZFC21EJYJMPHM/fireflies_charliesoule.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Fireflies and Charlie Soule, summer of ’73 119 Colonial St., #38, 7/8/17. 36” x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. I was a freshman, Charlie was a senior, he was a big deal to me. We played guitars together and a ton of other stuff the summer of 1973. RIP Chuck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1498750452141-GJ05L114V5TLWSEOO76H/col37distraction.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Distraction, 36”x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 6/29/17. Trying to concentrate on a single thought is a good way to activate everything in your head. All kinds of stuff competes for attention. Ideas, like children, shouting pick me pick me, look what i can do, watch me again. And all the stuff comes up like a lava lamp, morphing from one shape to another. I don’t know what happens to the things that reach the surface, they seem to disappear, making room for new interpretations. What seemed so essential, so important at the time turns to vapor. Someday I will do that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1497717999905-ZPB1QPZ79YORTOJU32GR/col36_allthegodslied.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - All the gods lied 119 Colonial St, #36, 36” x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 6/17/17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1496177644800-LA0AUXGJ24L0T8Y6NJXD/always_pretending.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Always Pretending 119 Colonial St., # 34, 5/30/17. 36” x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. Time is passing, things are happening, humanity is blurring itself into the DNA of all things. There are shadowy people in the background, they’ve always been there. Society looks and acts like a video game, which evolved from pinball and the flippers sling the ball back up top and we push the machine but it doesn’t make a difference, so spend another quarter. Thumbs up? Maybe no thumbs at all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1515534724012-DTQO6U6SSDP9YFBVYL4E/fallingbones.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Falling bones & the twins Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 36” x 36”, 5_3_17   There was a big article about conjoined twins in the paper… couple Sunday’s ago. Many of us are completed by someone else, and we spend our lives trying to find that person. To be connected. The falling shapes on the left are a tracing of a deer rib, eaten long ago, it is shiney and clean now I use it like a french curve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1515534804694-OS7X29HN227A08MSK910/elm30_waiting_for_trouble.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Waiting for trouble 137 Elmfield St., #30. 36” x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 4_22_17. Was going to call this one Seance, because I like the idea of making yourself open and available to things we don’t understand… to things that might conflict with our personal points of view, or belief systems. But something else happened, and this is my story after all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1491503560158-LZI1WX3DMDGNOV8RL4DD/elm29redsaxaphone.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Red Saxophone (sold) 137 Elmfield Street #29, 30”x 30”, oil, wax & oil crayon on canvas. Music is a difficult art form in that it involves capture. The work vanishes the second the sound is made and leaves me wondering, is the impulse to entertain, or is it a coping mechanism for the human condition? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1489252985712-AJR3MKOACXGK550SGU34/elm27_retreat.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Retreat 30” x 30”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. 3_11_17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1489253026936-7PSNEX40JJE4IF8XN96H/elm26sprout_small.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Sprout, ideas about growth 137 Elmfield St., #26. 36” x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 3/4/17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1487354443225-V7X4HJ53RK7SE3THLJB6/elm25_paradox.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Paradox 137 Elmfield St., #25, 2/17/17. Oil, wax, crayon, pencil on canvas, 30" x 48" I started this one then got distracted by a pile of graphic design, which is good because we like to eat every day. Probably too much NPR but we are into the Trump era now and everybody on our team is pissed. Maybe the title, Paradox has something to do with that. Alternate facts and evaporating evidence, and contrary truths. We never liked the government anyway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1484851167402-SKAE81SRO4TT49NUQDW2/elm24jfinal.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Reject 137 Elmfield St., #24, 1/19/17. Oil, wax, crayon, pencil on canvas, 30” x 48”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1490218436000-0UQZZKCZ38OHQ4G51QQ2/elm28wrench.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Wrench 137 Elmfield St. #28. 30” x 30”, oil wax and oil pastel on canvas, 3_22_17. Everyone has problems. Things break and if you don’t fix them they fall apart. The wrench can bring order to chaos, life to machines, and purpose to the person holding it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1483197655003-ANCWAC2YKOEORLL3QXMA/137elm23cicadamoon.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Cicada Moon over poison Ivy 137 Elmfield Street #23. Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. 30” x 48”, 12_30_16   This was going to be about fly fishing, but like so many true things it is not about that at all. It is about sound, a sense of place, and cicadas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1482082371159-KHSLJCEHZEXP3IU42GL8/137elmcrowcicada.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Crow & Cicada 30” x 48”, oil, wax oil pastel, pencil on canvas. 12_18_16.   Radio playing, reading something pulpy… again. This one might be more about the blood trail. Elvia and I were staying at the La Quinta hotel in New Britain CT, maybe mid nineties. We stepped out to get a bite to eat, and there was a fight going on outside. One of the men was stabbed pretty good, and as he did that special walk stabbed people do, holding his wound and staggering, he bled onto the sidewalk, leaving a crazy curvy blood trail, right out of a Pollack. We followed that fresh trail like it was a game, laughing at his bad luck at being stabbed, and my good luck at not. I can’t remember what we ate that night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1479247443091-1AEMO47GNMT5SRE4NJSV/137elm19underboothill.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - 137 Elmfield St. #19, Under Boothill. 30" x 48", oil, wax & crayon on canvas, 11/15/16. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472499637265-72MW3VSW55CLLKNSNJIR/3_119colonial_number1.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - 119 colonial #1, 24"x24", oil, wax & crayon on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472499475475-ZGCXPWTBMEOUIW65NCKL/5_119_colonial_3.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Remembering the beach, 24"x24", oil, wax & crayon on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472499319204-OFR8DU96LEHIZLANDKQO/2_languageisforeign8_18_16.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Language is foreign (sold) 36"x48", oil, wax & crayon on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472499494841-JCIRXXCYU29E5EAHLDW1/6_119colonial_number3.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Windowseat. 24"x24", oil, wax & crayon on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1476544149846-L9LNXB9TIY5IGF1GSGBT/colonial17sacredriver.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - 119 Colonial #17, Sacred River. 30” x 48”, Oil, wax and crayon on canvas, 10/15/16. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1505412828464-NRDKZEGHGTJ3C862M07B/8_119colonial5the_reader.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - The reader. 24"x24", oil, wax & crayon on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472500221709-BHW3Y0IPPA9FTA8G96IC/9_pick_me7_25_16.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Pick me. 24"x24", oil, wax & crayon on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472500644573-5IJSW9VDXKSNCM669HJV/13_bitsnotpieces8_16_16.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Bits not pieces. 24"x24", oil, wax & crayon on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1504801561480-1EQXFC0JNUNDFZQOE3HM/elm47smalltownrev.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472499514364-7SW8BT1NYASZ9EZ0P1KN/7_119colonial_number4.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Batman can't play piano. 24"x24", oil, wax & crayon on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472500265053-RO6IWTLRT8HD131C7KEZ/10_theshow7_31_16.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - The show. 24"x24", oil, wax & crayon on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472913876424-4WGHQ4STDU0D03BYP8HT/fallinyelloworangecrush.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - 119 colonial #13, Falling yellow and orange crush 24"x24", oil, wax & crayon on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1494530771743-7H5BXJ1JD6Q25ZHU1OO6/fallingbones.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Falling bones & the twins Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 36” x 36”, 5_3_17   There was a big article about conjoined twins in the paper… couple Sunday’s ago. Many of us are completed by someone else, and we spend our lives trying to find that person. To be connected. The falling shapes on the left are a tracing of a deer rib, eaten long ago, it is shiney and clean now I use it like a french curve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1475702790417-V5PHZOKU0DTRMFO55WWT/colonial16sweatlodge.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - 119 Colonial, Sweatlodge peyote. 30” x 48”, oil, wax & crayon on canvas. 10_5_16. This one is about cooking a vision. Searching all the dark corners and listening to the spiders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472500560217-OFM25FMF8K3RKUHVOB8F/12_flutter8_7_16.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Flutter – (SOLD) 24"x24", oil, wax & crayon on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1473862619241-7J4NMGZ0Z0ZTMWWYRYMS/colonial14learning.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Learning (sold) 119 colonial #14, oil, wax and crayon on canvas, 30"x48" 9/14/16 It started by writing things. Scrawling "I will not disturb the others," about a hundred times. Like a kid being punished in school, standing in front of the black board. Listening to the crickets and birds through the open garage door, remembering the regret. The other kids gone, leaving me with my thoughts, a penitent state. Maybe, in a distant way like a memory, this painting is about... learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1494530676903-5XWKRBD8U6TGSI6VYP57/tornado_col32.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Tornado 119 Colonial Street #32. 5_10_17, 36” x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1478102925916-Q0W1JLYA1ZVU25T0FNP2/137elmfield_thingscantrecall.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - 137 Elmfield St., Things I can't recall. 30" x 48", oil, wax & crayon on canvas, 11/2/16. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1524418523138-HAHWN0GJK3XI3ZLYCSXR/elm86every.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Everything Reverberates 137 Elmfield St., #86, 8”x10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board. Talking to another artist about the important questions, “who is your audience, and why do you paint?” He said, “I paint for other painters, and I do it because I have to.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1570713941593-57D0VL3BFFFJ1MA048K0/elm141windows.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Windows #141, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 60” x 48”, 2019. Dots and spots, the color of candy. Up close, its a lot of short stories. Back up and its the collective, all of our stories en route to somewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1500217538631-3QFKQYCGWK5F8L2DUOVU/col40kerrysgrdn.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Short Story - Kerry's Garden 20” x 20”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. 119 Colonial St. #40, 7/15/17.   Kerry’s garden is exploding, it shoots up out of the ground like a fierce geyser. It is spitting food into the atmosphere, a volcano of sustenance. There are rabbits all over the yard and they won’t take a bite, not one. If they got close enough one of those tomato plants would snatch and strangle it in a second. At night all the plants come to life and run around the neighborhood frightening dogs and bats. None of them wear sneakers but that does not slow them down. Sometimes if i get there early, they are all still panting, soaked with sweat from the exertion, the earth freshly turned from the harried rerooting. It is not easy for a plant to do that. In colonial times, Kerry would be hung, shot or burned alive for opening the door to hell. Theres a pepper plant in there with a tiny human head… that one in particular deserves mention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1508423027702-YQWXEOXK2SVHT20WO03O/elm52_onthemend.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - On the Mend 137 Elmfield St., #52, 20” x 20”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 10/18/17   I don’t know how wrench lost his leg. This was supposed to be about a sense of place. How many things do you need to create a place? Not just a landscape but something that looks like it is in motion, where things are happening. The sort of thing a memory or fantasy could stick to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1536352646901-YH0D1VVTHBNQW91L5SLJ/elm100riffours.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Riffing in fours 137 Elmfield St., #100, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 36”x48”. There are four lines that repeat here, I play them a little different each time with no particular destination in mind. Some of the frames are trying to warn us of something. There are no grace notes or passing tones here, and the music goes on behind this snapshot. Deaf and mute this piece writes itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1538773341423-YNF4XTD5S953J9M7CLI2/elm101spiderweb.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Spider web Spider web 137 Elmfield St., #101, 48” x 36”, oil wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1474643491693-79M9SIA0N4U9DQE46ZTG/colonial15midntinthegarden.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - 119 colonial #15, Midnight in the garden 9/23/16. Oil, wax and crayon on canvas, 30"x48" The title is about the book, and thinking about Savanah. I think the painting is about dissimilar things coming together. Conflicting ideas and the areas they touch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1480443952909-I9ILY172MME7LZS73EKL/137elm20standingrock.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Standing Rock 30” x 48”, oil paint, wax, pencil, and oil crayon on canvas. 11/29/16. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1503601851015-Z8PS984CB6SM9JJ06URW/col45harvest_eclipse.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Harvest Eclipse 119 Colonial St., #45. 36” x 36”, Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 8/22/17   Summer is burning by fast. Gardens are giving up their fruits & vegetables, it’s still hot but there is a temporary quality to the heat. As a kid this is the time you start getting nervous about the upcoming school year. Days are getting shorter, you play harder, stay out longer. Summer romance heats to the boiling point, it’s days numbered. Grass is tan, ground is hard and under all that, the planet works furiously to feed its people. Yesterday there was an eclipse, it was not dramatic in CT, it got a little dark, just for a bit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1508423113269-X2PVIHDYYVFILHMXAM0X/elm52_onthemend.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - On the Mend 137 Elmfield St., #52, 20” x 20”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 10/18/17   I don’t know how wrench lost his leg. This was supposed to be about a sense of place. How many things do you need to create a place? Not just a landscape but something that looks like it is in motion, where things are happening. The sort of thing a memory or fantasy could stick to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1578500722383-GKQRSKYCEYGQ7YZV6FZF/image.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Shy Y 137 Elmfield St., #145, 36” x 48”, oil & wax on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1495473748805-L4ZOW7G3M4G0XGNOKHMG/col33religion.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Religion 119 Colonial #33, 36” x 36”, Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas 5/18/17. Lots of different points of view here, those three in the upper left are a mystery to me. Maybe other worldly, maybe from the future or the past. The three women in the lower right, wearing burkas, are dealing with their challenges, keeping the faith and moving away from trouble. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1496781398770-LA3OVGGPD788UG673OV9/col35_cliffnotes.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Cliff Notes 119 Colonial St, #35, 6/7/17. Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 36” x 36” The mechanically aided, hand drawn pencil line is the grandpappy of everything and must be respected. As far as the rapture goes, we will play King Herod’s Blues until the end. The organizing of complete thoughts will be suspended due to the complexity of that chore, we will instead organize fragments of thoughts. The audience probably won’t notice until it is too late, so lets all try to hit the bridge at the same time. In F# please, uptempo, five six seven eight… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1492890980405-ON6E4O7PEW9KIEBP5U3D/elm30_waiting_for_trouble.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Waiting for trouble 137 Elmfield St., #30. 36” x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 4_22_17.   Was going to call this one Seance, because I like the idea of making yourself open and available to things we don’t understand… to things that might conflict with our personal points of view, or belief systems. But something else happened, and this is my story after all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1590677334109-9Q08V3BLPNKCUH1FBT63/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Free Vacation 137 Elmfield St., #163, 30” x 24”, oil paint, wax, pencil on canvas, 2020. It’s a prize, for winning the game. For not dying of Covid in the spring of 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1591024325088-VLZKETTPY75YERA4I2JY/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Free Vacation 137 Elmfield St., #163, 30” x 24”, oil paint, wax, pencil on canvas, 2020. It’s a prize, for winning the game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1488645574950-85FOPK517L1SRIF8IB9J/elm26sprout_small.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Sprout, ideas about growth 137 Elmfield St., #26. 36” x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 3/4/17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1501085104589-V8IMDQG11GYNQS4GRDGJ/thisledtothat.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - This leads to that 119 Colonial St., #41, 7/26/17. 36”x36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas   Theres a long list of names for this one. It has an aquatic feel to me, there is a net in there, lots of stuff caught in the net. I thought this was an environmental painting, scolding us all, but now i don’t see it that way. I think its more about the things we do, the stuff we have and how all that effects everything. We had a heat wave here in CT as this one developed. I thought it might be about that, it was around a 100° in the studio. Kept wishing there was water to jump into, maybe thats what this one is referring to. And maybe all that stuff is not a query, just an observation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1538773578416-2UJDI0G5U6TS60FQ7HMM/elm101spiderweb.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Spider web Spider web 137 Elmfield St., #101, 48” x 36”, oil wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1591373768519-0YLVNALSG50CK1Q19XYL/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Free vacation 137 Elmfield St., #163, 30” x 24”, oil paint, wax, pencil on canvas, 2020. It’s a prize, for winning the game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1489252771792-XMMTCLGABDNHGUUU8CCO/elm27_retreat.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Retreat 30” x 30”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. 3_11_17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1501085075443-H9DK43B6NQ8NXF7GJ1CR/col40kerrysgrdn.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Short Story - Kerry's Garden 20” x 20”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. 119 Colonial St. #40, 7/15/17.   Kerry’s garden is exploding, it shoots up out of the ground like a fierce geyser. It is spitting food into the atmosphere, a volcano of sustenance. There are rabbits all over the yard and they won’t take a bite, not one. If they got close enough one of those tomato plants would snatch and strangle it in a second. At night all the plants come to life and run around the neighborhood frightening dogs and bats. None of them wear sneakers but that does not slow them down. Sometimes if i get there early, they are all still panting, soaked with sweat from the exertion, the earth freshly turned from the harried rerooting. It is not easy for a plant to do that. In colonial times, Kerry would be hung, shot or burned alive for opening the door to hell. Theres a pepper plant in there with a tiny human head… that one in particular deserves mention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1512842385877-Z9UGUPJ6IYLWD3ADS6ME/elm58storiesground.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Stories from the ground 137 Elmfield St., #58, 24”x 30”, oil, wax, oil crayon, pencil on canvas Thinking about landscapes, fields and grass. Sometimes when things are just right you can look out over a field and be in the picture. Its a different way of experiencing a place, more than an observation. All the senses come together and the richness of it hits you like an epiphany. These are delicate moments, and everything in modern life tries to drown them out. There are stories to be heard, and if you are quiet they will come out of the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1560439387393-CHBPZCX6PKKEV0359EC6/elm132bowlorama.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Bowl-o-rama 137 Elmfield St., #132, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil, on canvas, 48” x 36”. Bowling, fast cars and cheap beer, the waitress at the diner is on roller skates and she’s a looker. It’s rock and roll, and the freedom to mix it all together. Epic summer anthems, staying up until dawn, hoping your brothers & fathers come back from Viet Nam standing up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1496781563560-NFP73NHBAPGPD8NRTDVQ/col35_cliffnotes.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Cliff Notes 119 Colonial St, #35, 6/7/17. Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 36” x 36” The mechanically aided, hand drawn pencil line is the grandpappy of everything and must be respected. As far as the rapture goes, we will play King Herod’s Blues until the end. The organizing of complete thoughts will be suspended due to the complexity of that chore, we will instead organize fragments of thoughts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1516808785584-Q4S2SP6NUD0X08I3KDLO/elm64beneath.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Beneath 137 Elmfiled St., #64, 20” x 20”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 1/24/18   The under story always feels aquatic to me. The questions might have to do with water, the answers definitely do. Looking behind or under something seems like a good place to find things. The question, “what is important?” never stops seeming relevant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1566323265666-ZRALP5QONXT6GXRPMSCF/elm138underthehorizon.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Under the horizon 137 Elmfield St., #138, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 48”x36”, 2019. This will be up for auction at the Westport Library in October. Proceeds to benefit all of the wonderful programs available in their giant beautiful new building. Off in the distance, the big ones wait for the show to start. The gig is on, it’s all good, hope we get paid… and it does smell like Lou dog in the van. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1580920069489-SD0U43PUIP6M58PBHRJM/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Behind the facade 137 Elmfield St., #149. Oil paint, wax, oil pastel on canvas, 30” x 48”, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472498997186-V3H3GNL0T3KTZJMCJI8C/100_0010me.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1585322421424-YPWDGMBHVUBA600ONQXF/137elm21crow.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - The Crow 30" x 48", oil paint, wax, pencil, oil pastel, on canvas. 12_9_16. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1578511798234-8EI05T6TIOU3H2A6NP53/mr_elm146.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Shy Y 137 Elmfield St., #145, 36” x 48”, oil & wax on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1586877969267-1HEQ8KTSQHE58V2J5NEK/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Infographic Arcade 137 Elmfield St., #159, 48” x 48”, oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1499529941987-NGXHGCMTS0NGBAXM9V8K/fireflies_charliesoule.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Fireflies and Charlie Soule, summer of ’73 119 Colonial St., #38, 7/8/17. 36” x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. I was a freshman, Charlie was a senior, he was a big deal to me. We played guitars together and a ton of other stuff the summer of 1973. RIP Chuck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1499530160499-URTQZJDPWGDLV6CWBZXH/fireflies_charliesoule.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Fireflies and Charlie Soule, summer of ’73 119 Colonial St., #38, 7/8/17. 36” x 36”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas. I was a freshman, Charlie was a senior, he was a big deal to me. We played guitars together and a ton of other stuff the summer of 1973. RIP Chuck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1591024604799-CZXNV8H6ZK5MMFFTOLIO/image-asset.jpeg Paintings 2015-2023 - Free vacation 137 Elmfield St., #163, 30” x 24”, oil paint, wax, pencil on canvas, 2020. It’s a prize, for winning the game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1509478937260-TQDM9M4JIS3V13TTRPFN/elm53carptown.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Carpville 137 Elmfield St., #53. 24”x24”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 10/31/17   Its halloween, I don’t think this painting has anything to do with that. It does have a carp in it, who i met on the Farmington river one afternoon after he bit my zug bug. A very pleasant meeting I set him free when we were done. He seemed pretty indignant about it and indicated that it would be the last. www.markrichart.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1523979764171-OQ8LN22HQYY7IDKN3JPT/elm82icehouse.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Ice House 137 Elmfield St., #82, 11”x16”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board Have never enjoyed ice fishing. Especially the style where you lay on the ice and stare into a hole. The snow blows over you and anyone that sees you assumes you are dead. The other way happens in these wonderful little shacks that are drug out on the ice. These are heated, hold four people, who bring food, booze, smoke and tiny ice fishing rods. A nice way to spend a few hours outside, in the winter, without a damn shovel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1513372284761-VL4N1YJDBLHDWTGIHZQT/elm59underitall.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Under it All 137 Elmfield St., #59, 24”x 30”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil, toner, vellum on canvas. A simple interrogation. Behind a forced laugh and the taste of metal, a fist slams into your head in a cold room. You wonder why, but just for a second. Because why is not an adult question and the answer leads you deeper into a basement no one wants to be in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1534185695680-QE2X3YAKBJSJCLC5SPAW/elm98theheat.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - The Heat 137 Elmfield St., #98, 48”x48”, Oil paint, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, August 2018. Sort of reflective, but the reflection is not a mirror image, it’s been diluted by the things underneath it. The heat lurks over my easel, it blurs my thoughts, melting wax and time, it all runs together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1507477194747-6DDFM4LDDG4P2UGKM3QQ/elm51birdhep.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Birdie and the Hepcats 137 Elmfield St., #51. 20” x 20”, Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 10/8/17.   It was a schematic, a design for all those transistors and capacitors. Patch it all together and turn it up. The music makes its own electricity. We are listening to Junior Brown, and his rockabilly surfer slide guitar with vibrato. Twang Deluxe hides here cuz he’s wanted by the police, and my wife thinks he’s dead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1482081990323-DBF2S3LIKEH8AUG922PM/137elmcrowcicada.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Crow & Cicada 30” x 48”, oil, wax oil pastel, pencil on canvas. 12_18_16.   Radio playing, reading something pulpy… again. This one might be more about the blood trail. Elvia and I were staying at the La Quinta hotel in New Britain CT, maybe mid nineties. We stepped out to get a bite to eat, and there was a fight going on outside. One of the men was stabbed pretty good, and as he did that special walk stabbed people do, holding his wound and staggering, he bled onto the sidewalk, leaving a crazy curvy blood trail, right out of a Pollack. We followed that fresh trail like it was a game, laughing at his bad luck at being stabbed, and my good luck at not. I can’t remember what we ate that night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1504801699369-1SYINR86QZK347UM0DFZ/elm47smalltownrev.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472499071548-J8KBYHRWSQ7N8DQNB9EN/100_0010me.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1493827233749-KLGLG5KL7TO3FHKARO87/fallingbones.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Falling bones & the twins Oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas, 36” x 36”, 5_3_17   There was a big article about conjoined twins in the paper… couple Sunday’s ago. Many of us are completed by someone else, and we spend our lives trying to find that person. To be connected. The falling shapes on the left are a tracing of a deer rib, eaten long ago, it is shiney and clean now I use it like a french curve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1482081750414-YRML4FZERRSAUBB9YJUY/137elmcrowcicada.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Crow & Cicada 30” x 48”, oil, wax oil pastel, pencil on canvas. 12_18_16.   Radio playing, reading something pulpy… again. This one might be more about the blood trail. Elvia and I were staying at the La Quinta hotel in New Britain CT, maybe mid nineties. We stepped out to get a bite to eat, and there was a fight going on outside. One of the men was stabbed pretty good, and as he did that special walk stabbed people do, holding his wound and staggering, he bled onto the sidewalk, leaving a crazy curvy blood trail, right out of a Pollack. We followed that fresh trail like it was a game, laughing at his bad luck at being stabbed, and my good luck at not. I can’t remember what we ate that night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1523393511260-FS3WD8MF579BQK5ETOBU/elm80grasscurtain.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Grass Curtain 137 Elmfield St., #80, 11” x16”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board, 4/10/18. Swallowed by obscurity, hidden behind the grass curtain, there are gauges in here. A bleeder valve hisses in the back, a steamy humid night. Carnival dancers in the street, lurching toward dawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1512842226461-ICNMMPGTBP0RHJ0UYWR1/elm58storiesground.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Stories from the ground 137 Elmfield St., #58, 24”x 30”, oil, wax, oil crayon, pencil on canvas Thinking about landscapes, fields and grass. Sometimes when things are just right you can look out over a field and be in the picture. Its a different way of experiencing a place, more than an observation. All the senses come together and the richness of it hits you like an epiphany. These are delicate moments, and everything in modern life tries to drown them out. There are stories to be heard, and if you are quiet they will come out of the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1524418406643-30QSBP0SDXLFJD47FS8E/elm86every.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Everything Reverberates 137 Elmfield St., #86, 8”x10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board. Talking to another artist about the important questions, “who is your audience, and why do you paint?” He said, “I paint for other painters, and I do it because I have to.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1521563463733-LN94ZZRQFPOU04Q06OZX/elm73morningwalk.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Morning Walk 137 Elmfield St., #73, 8” x 10”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on board, 3/20/18 When everything is fresh and clear, ideas feel new and the possibilities are endless. Not every morning but some, and just one of those will peel the bark off a bad day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1482082298047-DOR1Z88R938Y314WZZQT/137elmcrowcicada.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Crow & Cicada 30” x 48”, oil, wax oil pastel, pencil on canvas. 12_18_16.   Radio playing, reading something pulpy… again. This one might be more about the blood trail. Elvia and I were staying at the La Quinta hotel in New Britain CT, maybe mid nineties. We stepped out to get a bite to eat, and there was a fight going on outside. One of the men was stabbed pretty good, and as he did that special walk stabbed people do, holding his wound and staggering, he bled onto the sidewalk, leaving a crazy curvy blood trail, right out of a Pollack. We followed that fresh trail like it was a game, laughing at his bad luck at being stabbed, and my good luck at not. I can’t remember what we ate that night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1511802423377-UAOOYXDMB4CFFNLNZ97I/elm55alongfarmy.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Along the Farmington 137 Elmfield St., #55, 24” 24”, oil, wax, oil crayon, pencil on canvas, 11/27/17 If you pull into the Kolp Gardens and park on right, under the poison ivy tree you can see the path heading downstream. The cornfield will be on your right, animals will spook and run across your path as they bolt out of the stalks. It might be six hundred yards or a little more down that path theres an opening in the brush on your left, you can slide into the water there, under the canopy of a big maple. The ford is easy if the water isn’t too high, walk downstream below the island until the water is waist high, theres some wood to your right. This fish lives there, and he’ll take a size fourteen zug bug if your lucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1510361587424-GI0SYN30F7CFFPLVQNBY/raheemflyfish.jpg Paintings 2015-2023 - Raheem is flyfishing 137 Elmfield St., #54. 24”x24”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas Raheem is not from here, he has discovered fly fishing and digs it. He is thinking about jazz and that maybe this is not such a bad planet after all, you just have to avoid the schmucks. He is thinking after his tour he might move back here with his family. Maybe to Lebanon CT, or Prineville OR. The carp and black dace are wonderful and the natives don’t seem to care about them. https://www.markrichart.org/thrown-paint-abstracts-2024 daily 0.75 2024-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721225899354-T0I1EVB8BPE1KI9VABJ9/image-asset.jpeg Small thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Grass #1 Five Points Studio #357, 20” x 24”, Acrylic on canvas, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721225899354-T0I1EVB8BPE1KI9VABJ9/image-asset.jpeg Small thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Grass #1 Five Points Studio #357, 20” x 24”, Acrylic on canvas, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721226257853-E17K4O8DO8VNX6AVEX4X/image-asset.jpeg Small thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Grass #2 Five Points Stusio #358, 20” x 24”, Acrylic on canvas., 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721226402760-G2GF24RQNQR3WHMVET8K/image-asset.jpeg Small thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Grass tunnel Five Points Studio #359, 20” x 24”, Acrylic on canvas, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721226616985-4SL8I566JGZ8IYOGN1SY/image-asset.jpeg Small thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Abstract on black Five Points Studio #360, 24” x 20”, Acrylic on canvas, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721226686228-671LR64SZ0FAFXCK5XLC/image-asset.jpeg Small thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Whitey Passes Through Five Points Studio #361, 24” x 20”, Acrylic on canvas, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721226739415-34X55EKRJU8VAXNF1QKY/image-asset.jpeg Small thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Ornamental grass at night Five Points Studio #362, 24” x 20”, Acrylic on canvas, 2024. https://www.markrichart.org/reperesentational-2024 daily 0.75 2025-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1753972296099-5N94DMQPT6H0SNV9JD8D/image-asset.jpeg Representational Painting 2024-25 - Sandgate Community Church #2 Five Points Studio #405, oil paint on canvas 24” x 20”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721227492595-NZZJCCGA6VGE89CGVRD9/mr348fpo.jpg Representational Painting 2024-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1753972296099-5N94DMQPT6H0SNV9JD8D/image-asset.jpeg Representational Painting 2024-25 - Sandgate Community Church #2 Five Points Studio #405, oil paint on canvas 24” x 20”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1753972249445-7XV5U6KIQ9X6ZBAEPANB/image-asset.jpeg Representational Painting 2024-25 - Sandgate Community Church Five Points Studio #405, oil paint on canvas 24” x 20”, 2025. The church across the street facing the cemetery where the artist, Mallory Bratton Rich currently resides. Sandgate, VT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1751391306236-IX1MHMK2OPA4B8CBPTZU/image-asset.jpeg Representational Painting 2024-25 - The alley Five Points Studio #403, oil paint on linen 19.5” x 34”, 2025. Downstairs from my studio is the Crossroads bar, this is a subtle abstraction of the alley behind it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721227929053-78YN41C3YF4J3X8BFPGT/image-asset.jpeg Representational Painting 2024-25 - Torrington - study number one Five Points Studio #348, 21” x 28” oil paint, on canvas, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721227997064-QATJHNG4NG2UHU7W8OS0/mr349small.jpg Representational Painting 2024-25 - Tax Five Points Studio #349, 21.5” x 28”, oil on linen, 2024. Study number two, a block or two off Main Street, Torrington. 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721228339746-QZH6XMRZEPOAF3E1DQR3/mr351small.jpg Representational Painting 2024-25 - Don’t walk Five Points Studio #351, 30” x 50”, oil on canvas, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721228404326-PR8ZACKNY6EKNJI9C8BP/mr352small.jpg Representational Painting 2024-25 - Water Street in December Five Points Studio #352, 21.5” x 28”, oil on linen, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721228499610-3AA7JQMBXCFTY77D5R0E/mr355small.jpg Representational Painting 2024-25 - Two crooked things Five Points Studio #355, 21.5” x 28”, oil on linen, 2024. The alley behind Giovannis here in Torrington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721228728336-RXCABDNQEEJL5BCVB5QN/mr350small.jpg Representational Painting 2024-25 - The Alley Five Points Studio #350, 21.5” x 28”, oil on linen, 2024. This is the third in the series that is supposed to be representational. As that it is a failure, but i llike it anyway. https://www.markrichart.org/large-thrown-paint-abstracts-2024 daily 0.75 2025-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1733584340908-0LHLOMDEY4FDWWXGGSE9/image-asset.jpeg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Dramatic Y #373, 66” x 42”, acrylic on canvas, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1733584340908-0LHLOMDEY4FDWWXGGSE9/image-asset.jpeg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Dramatic Y #373, 66” x 42”, acrylic on canvas, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1728316691160-G030JBLQYRIFA31DLZDJ/image-asset.jpeg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Rocinante in Litchfield FPS #371, 47" x 65", acrylic on canvas, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1726576219732-84IJYCDYC7BNHGN4SSXU/image-asset.jpeg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Turmoil Five Points Studio #370, acrylic on canvas, 45” x 84”, 2024. Arty was a bum and I didn’t like him. I watched him die on the street a couple doorways from my studio last week. I was making this painting at the time, so in some way some part of his demise is in here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1725379181303-SUIAYAFIWGDE95LCOXVK/image-asset.jpeg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Litchfield, untitled #4 Five Points Studio #369, acrylic on canvas, 36” x 76”, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1725032253275-MR8YI6LJYBB9HDT9I9JJ/image-asset.jpeg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Litchfield, cutting hay Five Points Studio #368, acrylic on canvas, 67” x 54”, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1724942150198-IBMNPIU66J3KSUNN2MSW/image-asset.jpeg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Deep in thought FPS #365, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 75” x 63”, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1724941743145-TYM14YCRQBSL51QIPIJD/image-asset.jpeg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Litchfield #2 Five Points Studio #366, acrylic on canvas, 60” x 48”, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1724941856452-04X0GLBSHZRQP5MW1RXO/image-asset.jpeg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Litchfield House #1 Five Points Studio #367, acrylic on canvas, 54” x 65”, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721232866403-WG67BGORPD7HLQ9E9W0S/mr364small.jpg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Big Weather Weather FPS #364, acrylic paint on primed unstretched signcloth, 240” x 48”, 2024. I start these big ones with 5 gallon buckets of polymer, a ton of paint and string mops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721759835213-87V2D3XFZDUBDT5RRYHT/image-asset.jpeg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Big Weather 1 Detail 1 left side https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721760055348-B5OI3QYHCBSYUI3C59HL/image-asset.jpeg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Big Weather 2 Detail - middle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721760102939-JEEKDH3BVXVA23TYZPTH/image-asset.jpeg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Big Weather 3 Detail 3 right side https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1721233001631-YFGUJV6TV86GNXEXCNZT/mr363small.jpg Large thrown paint abstracts 2024 - Crescendo Five Points Studio #363, acrylic paint on primed unstretched signcloth, 108” x 48”, 2024. https://www.markrichart.org/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2025-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1759423175872-SZCT685HDKCUL7FTXFPB/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Pondering Structure Five Points Studio #411, acrylic paint on canvas 72” x 60”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1745591473660-3ECYNU2QYI4KJSAG7JQ8/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Flow #382, 36” x 48”, acrylic paint, spray paint, on canvas, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1759423175872-SZCT685HDKCUL7FTXFPB/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Pondering Structure Five Points Studio #411, acrylic paint on canvas 72” x 60”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1757440132102-NCMEY72PXDXFQ88V3B2P/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Fashion Five Points Studio #407, acrylic paint on canvas 55.5” x 44”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1757440212577-A74I48OECZ7JD6UWDA0N/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Tunxis Mead Corn, Farmington, CT Five Points Studio #408, acrylic paint on canvas 13” x 48”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1747839192634-XNZES0QS5BCYDQCCMX0F/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Touch Five Points Studio #390, acrylic paint on canvas 7’ x 5.5’, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1752523514922-ZYAWZCBRKO55P4TGNDQF/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Subterranean Five Points Studio #404, acrylic on canvas 66” x 84”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1745591881587-LVHX1JO1859I9FF1DH5B/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Murmur of birds Five Points Studio #384, acrylic paint on canvas 36” x 48”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1745592392077-H1F3UEY1EIDGOVWMOC93/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Blue #385, acrylic paint on canvas 68” x 68”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1745592187985-G89YS2DLQX5SSRPUMRGA/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Pretty #383, 36” x 48”, acrylic paint, varnish, on canvas, floater frame 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1745591533080-2PLGFBB5QUQQRMSVH410/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Remember the Tepee #379, 21” x 28”, oil paint & wax, spray paint, on linen, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1745591654924-VEHX9AW5QAGRE9Y221MG/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Flow #382, 36” x 48”, acrylic paint, spray paint, on canvas, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1745591703246-UWZHNHME213SV8NBJLEX/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Beneath #381, 36” x 48”, acrylic paint, spray paint, on canvas, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1745591779188-YQO4X89YEFO097VOVIKP/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Discard #380, 20” x 20”, oil paint & wax, spray paint, on canvas, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1745592113129-P5XKYQQA14Y7DR33B4XA/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Cave painting #385, 74” x 43”, acrylic paint on un stretched canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1745592343981-QXUSJ9U42TV5K2AH50D4/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Felicity Five Points Studio #387, acrylic paint on canvas 7’ x 6’, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1745592463325-T7OGTWJOKT00787MIEYK/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2025 - Red is the aggressor Five Points Studio #389, acrylic paint on canvas 7’ x 5.5’, 2025. https://www.markrichart.org/small-abstracts-2025 daily 0.75 2025-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1757440026140-XF1O69EIFK9S9IWXQDNU/image-asset.jpeg Small abstracts 2025 - Red House Five Points Studio #410, acrylic paint on canvas 20” x 24”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1757440026140-XF1O69EIFK9S9IWXQDNU/image-asset.jpeg Small abstracts 2025 - Red House Five Points Studio #410, acrylic paint on canvas 20” x 24”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1757439932462-K7VK6VHTBV9IECMHVWO6/image-asset.jpeg Small abstracts 2025 - Steps to the “L” Five Points Studio #409, acrylic paint on board 16” x 13”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1749825551682-OYBLA6LP9RSQYZ80Q51N/mr395small.jpg Small abstracts 2025 - Moroccan windows Five Points Studio #395, acrylic paint on canvas 14” x 11”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1749825646593-1BPXO0R4CEEJ2PL1T56H/mr396small.jpg Small abstracts 2025 - Color theory at work Five Points Studio #396, acrylic paint on canvas 10” x 8”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1749825693633-RITT7JR5VCC950BBUAA6/mr397small.jpg Small abstracts 2025 - Heros Five Points Studio #397, acrylic paint on canvas 14” x 11”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1749825759129-I37T15KKZWU8KCS86OMA/mr398small.jpg Small abstracts 2025 - One crooked thing Five Points Studio #398, acrylic paint on canvas 10” x 8”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1749825824909-0TRNWQ0BI9PFB1VNISF5/mr399.jpg Small abstracts 2025 - Block mountain Five Points Studio #399, acrylic paint on canvas 14” x 11”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1749825971546-HCZ2Y0AO6INK4RLAHTAY/mr400small.jpg Small abstracts 2025 - Surrender Five Points Studio #400, acrylic paint on canvas 14” x 11”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1749834272312-C4Z5V3HBGP9ME9K6C6UL/mr401small.jpg Small abstracts 2025 - Mickey Dee’s wrapper Five Points Studio #401, acrylic paint on canvas 14” x 11”, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1749834319359-8ODWA0P1KFAEPRVPU1X3/mr402small.jpg Small abstracts 2025 - June small abstract Five Points Studio #402, acrylic paint on canvas 11” x 14”, 2025. https://www.markrichart.org/painting-2026 daily 1.0 2026-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1774790322063-AUZX9XT2XZBXMAPD14I7/mr416b.jpg Painting 2026 - Schumanns triplets Hurley #416, acrylic paint on canvas 24” x 30”, 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1774790322063-AUZX9XT2XZBXMAPD14I7/mr416b.jpg Painting 2026 - Schumanns triplets Hurley #416, acrylic paint on canvas 24” x 30”, 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1774790468542-MJUHI51W4XDM533P6WCU/mr415.jpg Painting 2026 - Beyond Tangier Hurley Studio #415, 50” x 40”, acrylic on canvas, 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1774790593792-EUGMNZ28SALRDBG2PXEL/mr414.jpg Painting 2026 - Untitled Hills Hurley Studio #414, acrylic on canvas, 24” x 20”, 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1774790663085-V68HC489A5YT0068ZV5J/mr413.jpg Painting 2026 - Checkers by the water Hurley Studio #413, acrylic on canvas, 20” x 24”, 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1774790727526-DNO90PUZ0HHG2KUF3CBM/mr412.jpg Painting 2026 - House abstract Hurley Studio #412, acrylic on canvas, 24” x 20”, 2026. 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1982-2008 portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472592543499-VT4PNJEZTJHWSAUM7PAJ/image-asset.jpeg 1982-2008 portfolio https://www.markrichart.org/contact daily 0.75 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472585098734-968W72RTRDRKOYJF333P/image-asset.jpeg Contact https://www.markrichart.org/the-process daily 0.75 2023-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472596493826-DZSDS2EK7R51I3QUU4KD/image-asset.jpeg History In the early eighties nobody had any money and we all moved around the city a lot. Starting out down on East third street, between ave A and B, it was a tough neighborhood, Tompkins square park was called murder park back then, and for good reason. That little apartment was my first studio and I painted like a fiend, lookng at everything i could. We stole five gallon cans of paint they used on subways from the tunnels when we needed it. School lasted a couple years, until the money ran out. Rodney Greenblat was in my sculpture class, Keith Haring was just a couple years ahead of me. That was the year SVA started their art abroad program. Six weeks in Tangier, painting with Don Eddy and becoming good friends with artist Tom Kinder, and writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa. After coming home I worked as a motorcycle messenger, cab driver, factory worker, truck driver, and all around thug. That was the year of the big Guston show. An epiphany for me. He died in 1980, and i was just getting started. It seemed natural to pick up where he left off, and even today, thirty six years later, I think about him all the time. My studio moved from Manhattan to Flushing. Then Long Island City, Williamsburg, and Greenpoint. We fixed motorcycles in front so the studios always had a rough shop quality. Drill press, work bench, grinders, welders, tools, guns, knives and pieces of stripped bikes hanging around. Littered with broken bottles and discarded bits of metal, smashed things, lengths of chain and spools of welding wire, there was always an industrial feel and smell. The big dirty city was a violent playground. The work is my story, it's not just about the paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472596563820-7WREDIHLGN8Y19JIFP2K/image-asset.jpeg History This is Kerry Lord's garage. Have been painting here this summer (2016), watching his amazing garden grow and making friends with the wasps i share the space with. Kerry is a cake designer and a fine guitar player. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472743536086-4Q3IX0G1LBOU970IH9GA/process4pics.jpg History All the stuff that makes it go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1473000937750-ORBDRRQHMSQ0HM64UA85/image-asset.jpeg History Working on Falling yellow & orange crush, summer 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1473792614366-7C9OKSAON1WZZV1NJR9M/image-asset.jpeg History It started by writing, scrawling "I will not disturb the others," about a hundred times. Like being punished in school, standing in front of the black board. I remember the penitent state. Maybe, in a distant way, this one reflects that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1484851332258-DG3PDQJOYBB38AUO4D62/image-asset.jpeg History If you look under current work you can see this one finished, it's called reject. It might have started out as an environmental painting, but then it got personal. Received three rejections this month, thats three solid kicks to the ego. It sort of infected things, then the apex welder popped up and the pity party began. Though I think the painting is solid enough that the average viewer wouldn't get that. Visually I think its sort of poppy and upbeat... like poppy with a british accent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1487959550013-DP56KR5L0IZ4E98RQ485/image-asset.jpeg History Paradox, this is the process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1494017364436-8CCUWDW29LFETC0UGPWM/image-asset.jpeg History Sprout, evolving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1494017320650-1DW4PMS2CLB3HVVW75H6/image-asset.jpeg History Red Saxophone, in progress. As a guitar player I’ve been stealing horn lines for as long as i can remember. So maybe this is a little homage to all those pilfered ideas, and it looks like the usual cast of characters is taking time to listen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1494016984444-N44BDOUWX50W3X5XVTR6/image-asset.jpeg History Waiting for trouble, from the beginning, spring 2017. The phrase, “I am drawing like a child” kept popping into my head here. Some of my earliest memories are of sitting on the floor of my fathers studio drawing, and watching him paint. There were shelves I could get to, and when he was facing the easel I was alone. Boxes of pastels, crayons, pads, crow quill points & holders, charcoal, pencils, it was all pretty much there. And he’d let me have at it, as long as I shut the hell up, which I did, for hours. Because drawing is an intense experience for a child. It is a trip to wonderland, and I am again, drawing like a child. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1494018007164-VEOIV7H3EN6VA5IZFAO1/image-asset.jpeg History The turtle, equipped like a swiss army knife is trying to tell us something. He is coping with environmental challenges, he is trying not to be extinct. It might be good to try to understand him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1494531604693-BND5968DVGG8E7ZIFVPI/image-asset.jpeg History This is how Tornado evolved. In the face of turbulent change, our hero maintains his optimism and somehow interjects joy into the process of decay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1495473983210-P6P4PBSMVS6XVP5250NZ/image-asset.jpeg History Religion... or memories of places, a deer skull, a pilgrimage, 3 ladies in burkas on the move... a cicada wasp with his singular chore. The bottle gets the last laugh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1496688703900-7FC20U3W1D4VLU7XJD9S/image-asset.jpeg History Always Pretending, from start to finish. My wife thought this one looks like a video game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1496782714854-RS30COVL2OBJK8DZXDW8/col35process.jpg History Cliff Notes, abbreviated symbolism, in stages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1496782750759-XCIYJRWVUCQIN3BLI1TG/image-asset.jpeg History Cliff Notes, 3 details https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1499808692237-VF2CHW692OQ15X753HFB/col36process.jpg History All the gods lied, process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1499808883451-6EOIUFMPFIRSMT83MYR2/col37process.jpg History Distraction, process https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1500382028468-I3ND5MLYGHMAFFWPE6FQ/col38_process.jpg History Fireflies & Charlie Soule, process https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1500382182066-P95N9LOAS7A7UYPVN4D8/col39process_small.jpg History Short Story, process https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1500382253379-44ZTTKASZUYU3YT4EZCO/col40process_small.jpg History Short Stories, Kerry's Garden, process https://www.markrichart.org/process daily 0.75 2021-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1472593581940-QKX8W40T9BVWMGMZN3QL/totemandme1.jpg Why I do it https://www.markrichart.org/current-exhibition daily 0.75 2025-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/2b4e7d8c-4d52-44e3-ae7e-f267250b120f/alofft1.jpg Press - Make it stand out The show is up Dec 2024-Jan 2025. Alofft Gallery, 41 West Street, Litchfield, CT. Stop in and take a look. Thank you Craig Connolly, and all the other people who care about my work. Special thanks to Brian McClear for his portrait of me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1663435445280-BPL1V7OOHKAEPKM51OFA/repamercn2022article.jpg Press - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/16f414d9-30c6-45a7-b03c-1e459aff699b/5points_feb2022announcement.jpg Press - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1645482866742-W5GVY2KE0HF4Q03J2IA9/273165565_3069756016597071_2626484107420428138_n.jpg Press - Make it stand out Five Points Arts, East Gallery, 2022 show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1645482149300-WSFSZVLKHIKB0YJOSM6P/pattern_particle2022.jpg Press - Make it stand out A nice article by Kathleen Hulsar on my Five Points 2022 show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1645483602821-035MI8DYQQE7W1QZHDQX/repamerican2.jpg Press - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1630686600469-LSYWMLUTFNXCPBQUQMAB/Dirt+Naps+2+invite.jpg Press - Make it stand out Mark Rich is an inspiration. Art is his vocation. He accepts the responsibility of his gift, nobly makes art that is accessible, reflecting the stark truth of the human condition tempered with humor, joy and nostalgia. He blends organization with randomness, composition and automatism with a full vocabulary of symbols. His paintings can be considered still-lifes, cityscapes and abstracts depicting a state of mind, thought, feeling and memory. Thank you Dariusz Kanarek for producing our first podcast! - Suzanne Kachmar, City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, Ct https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1631035045486-SA1KQPJVKCHPP0QCPCTF/airplanes_dnap2021_reg_cit.jpg Press - Make it stand out Register Citizen article, Sept 2021. https://www.registercitizen.com/things-to-do/article/Torrington-exhibit-aims-to-remind-public-of-16433595.php https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1617981384838-T4XIND2QUBRIWRGO4PQJ/gpg2021_fb_ad1.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1615479253858-UBEROZ8Z1DSGOB1XC93X/mr_invite_gog2021.jpg Press 21 paintings made from Oct - Feb 2021 at the Five Points Studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1615496923230-1HFNX4B8YTO08MM1RAAL/gog2021eventbrite.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1607026657975-E3NOB9W94AEED9A1ABT3/mr_5pnts_studio12_20b.jpg Press Thank you Judith McElhone & Steve Temkin for this wonderful space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1600625269344-18ELNLTG9ST5RDYL5BQ3/webbanner2a.jpg Press 28 current paintings and one big one from 1985. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1592138072690-T58ZCBP7TWILMAOXQ9TA/spigot6_2020mrich_small.jpg Press The Spigot Cafe in Hartford, my favorite bar, June 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1584189418775-50O3CUHGISZ3CB1CR36M/march2020inviter_4.jpg Press Gallery is closed per corona virus, show canceled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1581608686419-RM3AV926XH5D2QQGJ0ZD/article1.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1581541859626-W69EU1IESG6GLG36VMHH/chase-tall.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1578501700459-EILU1DN93O8JZ74YRFV6/chase_invite2020.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1581541968353-K940M1SM7KPBNS7E03O9/spectrum1_20crop.jpg Press Spectrum Gallery, Centerbrook, CT, Feb/March 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1579293793166-PXL34YEFKPHZS9971V3R/me_memnewwrk2020.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1571059269288-E0ZCIVM4QR4LLUXIBHH3/IMG_0507+%282%29.jpg Press Westport Library Auction, October 12, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1564574586282-9RBRRIUXI19ZOHJSDNKW/website_entry.jpg Press Summer 2019, that big one sold opening night. The Underground Gallery, Collinsville, CT. Thank you Tom Kutz & Lisa Sharp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1561916146118-I4HH8T55YPOWJJAFZ7PG/gog59annivshow2019.jpg Press Thats my painting, Middle Haddam about to be bought. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1561124226911-GN5SI5EK8X9VL4L8NDNA/first_st_gallery2019.jpg Press My painting, Harvest Eclipse, was accepted at the 2019 Juried Exhibit, First Street Gallery, Chelsea, NYC. Thank you Nancy Margolis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1556981688184-GRUEZPYHWAECZ1HQPF5G/fb_ad2.jpg Press 36 paintings at the Town & County Club Gallery, May 2019, Hartford, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1549051991764-AGOO429W7GN74D3LVCMA/fbheader2.jpg Press My piece, Hartford Drive In, sold, Spectrum Gallery, Centerbrook, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1539711198534-G282IASES5K9KHXHH77S/gog_juried_2018.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1527258569491-LYA89MFYSMGUP0ZSSI8R/IMG_7953comp.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1534188019482-2MWNCRP2FUL32QJ19PMV/gog_ad8_2018.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1530967225375-V63RVH1JK2NCZT19QJFQ/spectrum_rlt_ad_july2018.jpg Press A new venue for me, The Spectrum Gallery in Centerbrook, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1525291061451-28XF637R1U91GLEXID2D/invite_horiz.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1521567459848-VSABAPBEXS9R542XY06B/image-asset.jpeg Press Group show, this painting is titled, Under it all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1506868184778-8P57ZQAGNB9ZTJQK8YWI/underground_show3.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1506868269327-7AF2FNUHP4K5DLX3OPWZ/image-asset.png Press 57th Anniversary Exhibition, June 30 - August 6, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1506868331821-5VE9QNP5KL83WJ1WXATP/bestinshow.jpg Press Winner 1st place for my painting, Short Stories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1506868400522-WZGPVGEBTF9VRVR2EGIM/fp3.jpg Press Good turnout at the opening, a nice crowd all night long https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1503336812720-02PDIEJO7UFBZOICBU1O/cf_facebook1.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1504487008894-84Q9NRX8LQ7QLFXO8EEX/gog9_2_17a_small.jpg Press 2017 Autumn Members Exhibition, Sept 1 - Oct 1, Gallery on the Green, Canton CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1508501536811-ZE5J47O2PWN5Y4VOIYGS/urried-in10_17_17.jpg Press Jurried in by Lisa Hayes Williams, Assoc. Curator, New Britain Museum. Show runs Oct 13- Nov 11 2017. This ones called Walker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1515949626788-PCWWTPCISQQHZIR0GH83/gog1.jpg Press Raheem is flyfishing, 137 Elmfield St., #54. 24”x24”, oil, wax, oil pastel, pencil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1519225861513-KMFNU3C0X1G2MNEFM8HV/myspotlightforweb.jpg Press Spotlight, Gallery on the Green, Language is Foreign. Runs from Feb 9 to March 11 2018. https://www.markrichart.org/graphic-design daily 0.75 2020-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1601663061583-8WOWCPTDI2GNL8X40BZ5/mrich_web3.jpg Graphic Design Call me for an estimate, 860 953 2990, or email markr5359@aol.com. https://www.markrichart.org/sketchbook daily 0.75 2022-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1642093321199-PBWT2LP8BKYUHRONCRUL/dancer_sketch.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Dancer, ink on paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1639932085736-P2WJFX89YY9NUIO64UF6/covid2.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Covid, Delta #2, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1639931824472-XEW6Z49IZ01DLJKAMDWY/smoking_qrntin2021.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Smoking, quarantine, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1642889359442-2T1O82MM6SRWXIA87G3A/mr_sb9_2002.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out sketchbook, 1/22/22. CBD is working. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1639931096718-2MHRG4Y6RX82UBOXDL3T/abstract1.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out pencil on paper, Dec. 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1639931689008-3RD97W7J2TVTEM6QVNR7/creeps+in+back.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Creeps in the back, 8/2021, pencil on paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1639932016787-PBVMXF552SNQU6M3N93K/delta1_qrntn2021.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Quarantine, Delta 1, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1639931427808-99VKIUJGI8MF7TBNDRNJ/mr_sketchbook8_22_21.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Covid alpha, 8/22/2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1641580898830-COLROTMPG42O365IOBA3/covid6.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Covid, Delta #6, 12/28/21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1641581015853-YV4QADLNN3A13N4R5OUH/covid7.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Covid, Delta, 2021 #7 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1641581219453-QN6AGJXU0TLIYLCSGJGU/covid4.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Covid, Del;ta #4, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1641581867384-685LQQU3WMDHB6TDZLJJ/covid8.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Covid, Delta #8, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1646521843062-OWGY5P7XYUKAATC5PYM0/sketchbook10.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Day old coffee and glad to have it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1646521921841-JH9B2DPF5268KCSSU7LC/sketchook13.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Schizophrenia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1646521878516-6OR5IJ7J1ITTYNM9MWUP/sketchbook11.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Twelve things https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1647124463623-I12AN26DHOKFNG1OKUW0/sketchbook12_4.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Drawing on a snow day, 3/12/22. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1648065426886-VNPXXRVD4NS4F3TIWC9X/mr238wsketch.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out Angry little trees Five Points Studio, #238, 11” x 14”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, pencil on cradled board, 2002. From my sketchbook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/1648065515814-V10NBA0LAQV60JMBM0UA/mr237.jpg Sketchbook - Make it stand out TV with friends Five Points Studio, #237, 14” x 11”, oil paint, wax, spray paint, pencil on cradled board, 2002. https://www.markrichart.org/current-artwork-2 daily 0.75 2024-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/5c2fca2f-b534-482b-8a1f-38c7fbda9c86/mr375small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Mending the path - sold #375, 30” x 50”, acrylic on canvas, 2024. The process to get color like this is a coat of gloss varnish between each layer of paint. Probably a dozen or more layers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/fe9b7155-7bea-4411-88ef-2bd56951bfe5/mr376small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Train #376, 30” x 48”, acrylic on canvas, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/02e7dd4b-226b-45e5-b241-6a8084d87c71/mr377small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Burning #377, 30” x 48”, acrylic on canvas, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/7bde146d-c438-45c0-ad5d-5388af23b6d9/mr299small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Frame as marquee selection FPS #299, 39” x 63”, acrylic paint, spray paint, wood & inkjet on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/2e68cd89-d5a0-460a-a5f9-699871ac66b7/mr306small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Underneath design FPS 306, 20” x 20” mixed media, oil paint, wax, acrylic paint, spray paint, antique molding, on canvas, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/4faf077b-7566-4f00-ac94-e2cb5dd27458/mr305small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out The Arch FPS #305, 48” x 36”, acrylic paint, spray paint, wood, ink jet, varnish 2024. I started thinking and painting about arches in Morocco around 1980. They still invite speculation and inspire some kind of magic in me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/ede39fbd-3ce8-423a-a3d1-0d7fb78c4151/bonnano+rich+1.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Play A collaborative painting by Karen Bonanno and I. 43" x 72", acrylic & oil on canvas, 2023. We are about to start a second, same size & medium. Karen has a show up now at the Alofft Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/fdef09f8-7a16-43b6-883f-757e16c84aed/mr294dsmall.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Subtext & Inuendo FPS #294, 48” x 60” acrylic paint, spray paint, oil paint, oil crayon on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/10a4fbe4-a578-431e-a36e-3de2f4936e9f/mr196small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Splinter FPS #296, 20” x 20”, acrylic & spray paint on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/69c1ff67-509d-4c82-9848-005e015a55f1/mr293small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out T town with red truck FPS 293, 20” x 20”, mixed media, acrylic paint, photo, on canvas, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/0cff01cd-0026-4b9b-a3be-5cabf766d1ae/mr291.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Small fry FPS #291, 64” x 42”, acrylic paint, spray paint on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/489aac16-da53-4ada-92db-d64002fbfe76/mr287small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out All mine FPS, 287 76” x 64”, acrylic & spray paint, oil pastel on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/62f6e527-800e-4119-9eb4-552c7d4b779f/mr278e.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Under the flower moon FPS 278, 20” x 20”, acrylic on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/a8b41240-fc6c-4306-98b2-317332cec88c/mr288small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Mistress in the window FPS 288, 20” x 20”, acrylic on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/4889a480-9ab8-4ed1-97e3-9c21db38d90a/mr282b_small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Mistress at the theatre FPS 282, 20” x 20”, acrylic on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/43b9d445-da17-4fdb-836c-66ba08d13494/mr283b_small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Mistress at the motel FPS 283, 20” x 20”, acrylic on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/f6d43267-fd4e-4744-9e0e-5ffd98d42135/mr280c_small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Vagina flower FPS 280, 20” x 20”, acrylic on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/ba1e0fac-3a7d-4e1b-bdb6-b8f60814f63f/mr300small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Self portrait with revolver FPS #300, 11” x 14”, acrylic paint, spray paint, ink jet, decomisioned .32 cal. H&R revolver, 2024. When the money runs out, and you have given it all. A poignant ending to an artists life is well deserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/4fdd8431-a818-4d0e-a0a6-f62bb45f7231/mr301small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Detail from 2018 FPS #301, 9” x 12”, acrylic paint, spray paint, antique molding, ink jet, 2024. The print is a detail from a larger painting. It is the drill press, and wrench plant from a painting about conflict and resolution. The weapons we build for the fighting we do to stop the fighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/65934b6e-eba4-47de-910e-8bcb52ce4653/mr302small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Rainy Night on Water Street FPS #302, 8” x 8”, acrylic paint, spray paint, old molding, ink jet, varnish 2024. This is my view standing at the palette mixing color every day. It is in motion even when the traffic has stopped and the people are gone. Constantly changing light is absorbed by some surfaces, reflected by others. It is a moody town, Torrington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/0da1ea5d-7c8a-43f8-a3fd-d22e43b62081/mr303small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out The displaced FPS #303, 8” x 8”, acrylic paint, spray paint, wood, ink jet, varnish 2024. A detail from a painting about people in fear and on the run. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/fa76c6f1-acc3-471e-9e84-08aa072c2143/mr304small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Spoon FPS 304, 60” x 48”, Acryllic & oil paint, spray paint, frames, oil crayon, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/066e05b1-992e-45c7-94c9-63737b2861d5/mr347small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Beach chairs at Moonstone FPS #347, 48” x 36”, Oil paint & wax, spray paint, oil crayon, wax, on canvas, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/f7fedef1-569e-4a73-bdc9-047d941c0eef/mr374small.jpg Paintings 2023-2024 - Make it stand out Skinned #374, 75” x 43”, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 2024. https://www.markrichart.org/collabarative-work daily 0.75 2025-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/d372e1e1-8f1e-48ed-86df-4d118d23c4eb/bonnano+rich+1.jpg Collaborative Work - Make it stand out Play A collaborative work with Karen Bonnanno, 43” x 72”, Acryllic & oil paint, spray paint, oil stick, on canvas, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/b70c269d-cb6e-46ac-8c66-1e95f80eaf16/karen_collab2small.jpg Collaborative Work - Make it stand out Main Street. The second collaborative work with Karen Bonanno finished 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/13d517d8-c97b-4249-bb49-704e9d2a6069/mr353dsmall.jpg Collaborative Work - Make it stand out Cartoon News Five Points Studio, #353. A collaborative work from Ethan Newman and myself, 62” x 71”, acrylic and objects on canvas, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/2d3b6a1a-cead-44c1-85d0-0ef84a113a8e/collab_wonder_why_small.jpg Collaborative Work - Make it stand out Wonder Why A collaborative work by myself, Christian Crowley, and Ethan Newman. A Five Points Studio Work, 71” x 62”, 2023. Sold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/577d4ef020099e5a06535497/30b9c9fd-eca2-4fa4-bfa7-6cc8f3c0fb6a/mrcollab+redtrucksmall.jpg Collaborative Work - Make it stand out One thing with red truck A collaborative work with Christian Crowley, 20” x 20”, Acryllic & oil paint, spray paint, 2023.