
Broken Pots
2009 oil on canvas 10" x 20"
I am re-visiting a subject I haven't painted in 29 years. When I started at
MassArt in 1980 I thought I was going to be a graphic designer, but I quickly got bit by the painting bug. My first series of paintings were of broken terracotta flower pots my mother had lying around. This is the subject where I learned the basics of oil paint. Although those paintings are definitely student work, I can look at them now (still hanging on my mother's wall) and also feel the excitement I felt at having made them, and the possibility of the
next paintings being better. Little did I know then that the
better paintings are always the next ones.