Coastal Firs in Fog
2024 | Oil on archival paper mounted on panel | 5×7 inches
On a trip to Acadia to paint the coastline in 2024, I met and made friends with a wonderful Mount Desert Island resident who owns a house in Bar Harbor. On a visit to her house, I noticed that she had several Japanese prints on her wall, which she informed me she had inherited from a family member. I was amazed to see that they were by Toshi and Hiroshi Yoshida, two masters of the Shin-Hanga style that was dominant in Japanese printmaking in the early 20th century, combining ancient and modern Japanese printmaking techniques with some European impressionist principles that Japanese artists found inspiring during that time. After spending a part of an evening looking at the dramatic atmospheric perspective in these prints, I woke up the next day to find the whole coast wrapped in fog. It was one of those moments where nature imitates art: walking down the rocky Acadian coast, I was seeing Yoshida pictures everywhere in every group of trees I looked at. I finally settled on this little group of fir trees, and spent a morning exploring the color shifts between the foreground and the background trees.
This painting is sold in a solid wood frame, as pictured.
2024 | Oil on archival paper mounted on panel | 5×7 inches
On a trip to Acadia to paint the coastline in 2024, I met and made friends with a wonderful Mount Desert Island resident who owns a house in Bar Harbor. On a visit to her house, I noticed that she had several Japanese prints on her wall, which she informed me she had inherited from a family member. I was amazed to see that they were by Toshi and Hiroshi Yoshida, two masters of the Shin-Hanga style that was dominant in Japanese printmaking in the early 20th century, combining ancient and modern Japanese printmaking techniques with some European impressionist principles that Japanese artists found inspiring during that time. After spending a part of an evening looking at the dramatic atmospheric perspective in these prints, I woke up the next day to find the whole coast wrapped in fog. It was one of those moments where nature imitates art: walking down the rocky Acadian coast, I was seeing Yoshida pictures everywhere in every group of trees I looked at. I finally settled on this little group of fir trees, and spent a morning exploring the color shifts between the foreground and the background trees.
This painting is sold in a solid wood frame, as pictured.
2024 | Oil on archival paper mounted on panel | 5×7 inches
On a trip to Acadia to paint the coastline in 2024, I met and made friends with a wonderful Mount Desert Island resident who owns a house in Bar Harbor. On a visit to her house, I noticed that she had several Japanese prints on her wall, which she informed me she had inherited from a family member. I was amazed to see that they were by Toshi and Hiroshi Yoshida, two masters of the Shin-Hanga style that was dominant in Japanese printmaking in the early 20th century, combining ancient and modern Japanese printmaking techniques with some European impressionist principles that Japanese artists found inspiring during that time. After spending a part of an evening looking at the dramatic atmospheric perspective in these prints, I woke up the next day to find the whole coast wrapped in fog. It was one of those moments where nature imitates art: walking down the rocky Acadian coast, I was seeing Yoshida pictures everywhere in every group of trees I looked at. I finally settled on this little group of fir trees, and spent a morning exploring the color shifts between the foreground and the background trees.
This painting is sold in a solid wood frame, as pictured.