The Artmere Journal
Stories from the studio, notes on collecting, and a closer look at the rooms art calls home.
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Studio
Notes from the Studio
Every painting begins somewhere quieter than the room it eventually lives in. A first entry from the studio on how a piece becomes what...
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Interiors
Why hallways are the honest gallery
A homeowner in Connecticut sent photographs of seven walls in her house, asking which was right for a painting she was considering. By the...
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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...
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Studio
Wednesday pigment
On Wednesday morning I open the pigment cabinet, and what happens there decides the color of the next five days of painting. A note...
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Collecting
What estate sales never deliver
A collector in Aspen discovered six months after an estate sale that the painting on her wall had been returned in 2019 by a...
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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...
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Interiors
The wall you promised yourself
Every home has one wall that has been waiting on a decision for two years. On the fifteenth of January, after the house has...
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Studio
The year I stopped counting canvases
For nine years I counted finished canvases at the end of December. The number was always too small and never told the truth. In...
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Collecting
The painting she almost sent back
The atelier offers a sixty-day return window. In three years, six recipients walked to the edge of it around day eighteen, twenty-two, or forty-one,...
