Abstract Paintings - December / 2015

Here's what has transpired on the big wall in my studio this month between holiday festivities:

Clarion - acrylic on canvas - 27"H × 53"W - see with more white space

Second Guess - acrylic on canvas - 25"H  × 37"W - see with more white space

Gambit - acrylic on canvas - 25"H × 37"W - see with more white space

Curio - acrylic on canvas - 24"W × 26"H - see with more white space

Indian Summer - acrylic on canvas - 24"W × 26"H - see with more white space

Season's Greetings

Wishing all my friends a Happy Holiday and a splendid New Year. While working out ideas for the annual Mayforth/Magurn Christmas card, I generated a bunch if ideas. On a whim I submitted them to The Boston Globe and they bought five. Lesson learned. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Accidents Will Happen - New Abstract Paintings - November / 2015

I've long been interested in the idea of the accident in art. Early in my career as a painter I was unenlightened  and had a tendency to overwork my paintings, obliterating every vestige of "accident", in a hopeless quest for perfection. But through the years I have come to embrace the unexpected and now let the materials speak. I try to work with the chaos rather than try to stifle it.  The process being much more of a dialogue rather than an imposition of one's will. Hopefully you can see evidence of this philosophy the this current batch of paintings.

Big Top - acrylic on canvas - 25"H × 40"W - view with more white space

Hacienda -acrylic on canvas - 24"H × 40"W - view with more white space

Parnassus - acrylic on canvas - 24"H × 40"W - view with more white space

Nuit Blance - acrylic on canvas - 23"H × 43'W - view with more white space