Maud Guilfoyle
WESTWOOD, NJ
I paint in a greenhouse beside an 18th century family farmhouse, at Old Hook Farm. Works in progress may include art from my Flowers for the Bees series.
MessageI paint in a greenhouse beside an 18th century family farmhouse, Old Hook Farm, the home of the third and fourth generations of the Marek family. After a day of painting, there are beautiful heirloom vegetables and fruits to take home to paint and for cooking. I have painted this farm‘s flowers, fields, crops and historic buildings for over a decade. In winter the greenhouse is filled with flowering lemon and jade trees, orchids and succulents. The farm is near the Hudson River where the quality of light is soft, and at times luminescent.
As a child, I spent summers by the sea on Fire Island and in the mountains of Pennsylvania. I was free to roam and explore on my own and developed an intrinsic love of the sea and Eastern woodlands. In my twenties I lived in the Southwest and painted the incredible vistas of sky with dusty pink-colored mountains and silver rivers running through the landscape. I accompanied my husband, an archaeologist, and traveled through New Mexico and Arizona visiting ancient sites. The light and colors of the sky and earth were brilliant and required color palettes very different than those used for the gardens, waters, and countryside of the Northeast.
I paint landscapes~ meadows, gardens and small farms with their wildflowers, herbs and grasses which form an intricate woven tapestry in these paintings. Honeybees, butterflies and birds inhabit these landscapes. Nature and the delicate balance of human interface with the environment is threaded throughout my art.
I paint landscapes, meadows, gardens and small farms with their wildflowers, herbs and grasses which form an intricate woven tapestry in these paintings. Honeybees, butterflies and birds inhabit these landscapes. Nature and the delicate balance of human interface with the environment are threaded throughout my art.
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