FEATURING TALENTED LOCAL ARTISTS
I’m Drawing as Fast as I Can
Where do you get your ideas?
If you look at the world with a satirical perspective, you realize ideas are all around us. When I first came to New York City in the mid 1970s, the latest fashion for women was large, puffy, purple down coats. It inspired me to draw a parade of women in those coats following each other like lemmings off a West Side pier. The drawing led to my first book, Lemmings and Other New Yorkers. After I saw the lions […]
Tony Henneberg
“I don’t necessarily consider myself an artist, I like to represent things on paper or canvas.” –Tony Henneberg
A downy woodpecker, a red-tailed hawk, a winter warbler, chanterelles, king boletes, black trumpets, and even the occasional bovine, Pine Plains painter Tony Henneberg pays attention to nature, in particular birds and mushrooms, wherever he goes. Ethology (the study of animal behavior), anatomical studies, and more recently, mycology (the study of mushrooms) combine with habitual quiet observation to elicit the inspiration for Henneberg’s watercolor and oil paintings.
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Mad Rose Gallery Brings Interactive Gallery Space to Millerton
Robert and Kerry also mention the vital role that the Millerton Business Alliance plays in making Millerton a lively and dynamic community.
Gardens of the Anthropocene
“I have to work from life. If I work from a photograph or make it up it’s not the same.” The life that artist Marilla Palmer is referring to is nature, and very often, the gardens she cultivates. Palmer comes from a long lineage of garden enthusiasts and nature lovers, in particular her father, who instilled in her a love for gardening and an esteem for the natural world. The Anthropocene, the period in Earth’s history when human activity first began to have a significant […]
