The Artmere Journal
Stories from the studio, notes on collecting, and a closer look at the rooms art calls home.
-
Process
What the photo never captures
Every photograph of an original oil painting is a small lie. Not from dishonesty but from physics. A camera sensor reads reflected light from...
-
Process
Why I never paint in batches
The first time a collector asked why I do not paint in batches, I almost did not understand the question. Notes from a Brooklyn...
-
Process
The hour before varnish
Before a painting is sealed, there is one hour in which nothing is painted, nothing adjusted, nothing touched. A chair two meters from the...
-
Process
Six weeks on the wrong canvas
On the sixteenth of January I took a canvas off the stretcher bars, rolled it, and put it in a drawer. I had worked...
