Abstract and Landscape
I’ve been coming up Muddy Lane At least three times a week for the last 20 years, and I thought there really weren’t any surprises left there. It’s amazing, though, how a glance at even just a car going by can turn your gaze in a slightly different direction and give you a completely fresh… Continue reading Fresh Take
Thanks to the boys' "donated" labor last summer, my garden was mercifully easy to prep and plan this year. Thanks to the effects of my adenomyosis, it's the only physical labor I've engaged in since May, but even though it's kept me down on the bench, I haven't been out. Even before school finished, I… Continue reading Down and In
It’s been one of those perfect puffy cloud days here in Vermont. Storms rolled through a couple days ago followed by another day of soaking rain. In their wake is a landscape so green and lush it fools you into thinking that our “brave little state“ is steeped in opulence. Teeming, 18” x 24” A… Continue reading Teeming with Life
Some people tell me I’m brave. I hold it together when my kids need me to. I keep my life and job afloat, even when the worst depression at hit, but that’s being strong. It has nothing to do with being brave. I’ve known ever since I self-published my first short story that I wasn’t… Continue reading Stand and Create
The assignment was to take a new approach to an old idea. Pick something we’ve painted a bazillion times and do it in an entirely different way – new tools, different support, mix up more than just the colors. I used my favorite spot -- my Giverny -- a favorite view of Mt Equinox in… Continue reading Same Song, Different Dance
The school year is coming to a close, and with it, the end of a period of intense creativity for me. Every day of every week has been filled with creating new PowerPoint‘s or NearPods and with silly real world math problems or virtual, literary field trips around the world.Part of me can’t wait take… Continue reading Big Dreams
I started this piece between bouts of pneumonia a few months ago. My intention was and is to give it to a friend who has supported my creativity for years now, but almost as soon as I scraped the first blobs onto the canvas, my creative journey stalled back into neutral. Teaching from home through… Continue reading A Way Forward
Prints and originals (when still available), can be purchased on Etsy here.
The dry and ready to post on Etsy paintings are now sharing space on the bookshelf gallery with the new not quite dry and too dangerous to post paintings. There's an open house and an exhibition in Bennington coming up, so the smallest gallery in America could get pretty packed for a few weeks. So… Continue reading The Itty-Bitty (crowded) Bookshelf Gallery
Down the Old Farm Road, Oil, 8”x10” Prints and originals (when still available), can be purchased on Etsy here.
Somehow our three graces didn't get added to the web collection for the Equinox Gallery show, but you can now buy prints and cards of our girls here.
These were our favorite girls - our three graces. They followed us everywhere - even into the house - until a fox discovered a hole in our coop. You can buy museum quality prints and cards here
Rachel Barlow Art 