Dancing Blue Trees under that Moon

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Dancing Blue Trees under that Moon

$3,200.00

48x24 Acrylic

This Plein Air painting was done at the height of summer adjacent to Strawbery Banke in the Prescott Park gardens. In the upper corner is the black colonial house with the unique windows built in the 1600! The densely packed square is full of every sort of flower which makes is complicated to paint. The blue trees are an homage to Bonnard

Bonnard was the inspiration for this painting. He truly knew how to paint magical gardens. His use of eclectic orange and purplish blues rally light up his paintings. There are obvious reasons: his rich color, his warm light, his human intimacy. But I suggest we love Bonnard less for his harmoniousness than his unsettling pictorial dissonance.

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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 have a group of historical areas that I am painting, or known as historical paintings. Look out for more!

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