Souvenirs

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Barberry Hill Souvenirs are small oil paintings made with a single earth color, raw umber: the land painted with the land. Each is made alla prima, wet-into-wet in a single session, from memory rather than direct observation. The name follows Corot, whose oil studies of the Italian countryside taught him to see light, and who later called his remembered landscapes souvenirs. Mist, weather, and the texture of field and treeline rise from the surface the way a place lingers in an old sepia photograph. Each is a recollection of the place where I live and work in Vermont.