When I was eight, our school went to a field trip to Strawbery Banke.
I fell in love with it then, the gardens, the crowded turn of the century houses. It was such a beautiful escape. Now I live close by and I paint such an amazing part of Portsmouth. Strawbery Banke is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth. It features more than 37 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian and Federal style architectures. The darkest colored house is the oldest house in the group.
I hope to become the painter people turn to when they want a Strawbery Banke painting. I plan on researching more historical stories and viewpoints of the Banke.
There is nothing more exciting than bringing modern and contemporary style to the gradational New England world. To bring expressionism to the area is a thrill.
https://www.strawberybanke.org/ is is art in itself. Many of my contemporary paintings are of the buildings there.