Summer

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

A Walk to the Water 12 x 12” Oil

While John was preparing the catalogue for his major solo exhibition in 2024 at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art titled, “Transcendence: Truth in Nature”, he decided to write about his experiences painting through the four seasons. In this excerpt, he walks the reader through the four seasons and the inspiration and challenges they bring to the landscape painter.

Here he shares some of his thoughts and paintings about Summer with you:

“When we lived and painted at a higher latitude on the Hudson River, I was immediately aware of the lower angle of the sun there—an angle which increased all those interesting aspects of light on the landscape that are missing in summer here. The summer sun was never directly overhead. The “golden hours” of morning and evening light lasted longer and helped me understand fully the work of The Hudson River School. Finding subjects to paint any time of day there was not difficult. Th…