Hanging out last Saturday night with fellow artists, a woman approached a painter and asked if he had painted a black painting of a canoe. He was pretty sure he hadn’t and then it occurred to me that I had painted one, called At Sea in G Major that I posted here in 2017. She really, really wanted it, had been thinking about it since I last showed it at my gallery in 2022. I thought of a price, she thought of the same price, and on Thursday I delivered the painting and we spent the next three hours telling stories. A new friendship was born.

Yesterday she sent me a text describing the first night with the painting. I share it here because it is how one hopes their work will be appreciated.

“I’m so thrilled to have this painting of yours!! Jim loves it too! Last night we pulled 2 chairs up behind the couch and sat there and stared at it and played Wagner’s music and then he read from TS Elliot’s the Dry Salvages. We were both sooo inspired by your work throughout the evening!”

A happy home, a new friendship. It’s been a very good week.

Happy weekend everyone.

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