Against Absence - Poetry project by the FSU Center for Literary Arts - My pieces published

 https://www.frostburg.edu/against-absence-project-poetry/index.php 

Please see the post here.  My work is under M.C. Pratt

I recently had a piece accepted to the Maryland Bards Poetry Review, 2025.

Thank you to the jurors!

Songs of he Inner Ear

Late at night

with only the moon as witness,

the sea sends Her songs

ashore, 

tide in-flow

carrying them

to break between rocks,

over shingle,

grace notes

flowing though dunes,

ancient tunes snared in sea bream

and reeds

Soft siren tonals lifting aloft

on a light strum breeze

finding the ear

of the soft

slumber sleeper,

unsure even so

if that thin air

carried

only a dream.

                                                                                                                                                                             

This 1870's breadboard came to me from a client

who wanted to have some design work done. It had belonged to her grandmother, 

born arounnd 1871. My mother happened to have been an expert in the arts of rosmaling, done on wood, and tole, done on tin. I still have her patterns. And so the generations are linkd through my work on this piece! When my client passed away last year, the piece came back to me.

In  April of this year, I will be giving a workshop on the Nordic art of rosemaling.  Attendees will create their own breadboards using traditional designs and learning traditional brushwork. More informtion is available by email: triskelestudio13@gmail.com

 

The FRATZ BARN, located on Rt. 219 

in Accident, MD, was an iconic landmark within the Eastern Garrett County community. This watercolor, part of a series I created to commemorate barns across the county, has FOUND

A NEW HOME! A local collector has added it to his repertoire.

Like many other classic barns, it succombed to time a number of years ago, but is fondly remembered. 

January, 2025

This is an in-progress mock-up in watercolor for a client in Emerald Isle, North Carolina. The great blue herons will be added soon, and were blocked out to allow for background work to take place. 

This piece is 22x30 on 300 lb Arches watercolor paper and will eventually be matted/framed for marketing. The client is not under any obligation to purchase the mock-up.  This proces is something I will often do for my own familiarity with the subject, and can then offer the piece for purchase. The final commission will be in oils, and will be on 36x48 gallery wrapped linen. The client will also receive a full scale sketch, so that she can best visualize the finished painting, enabling us to discuss any alterations before the final work begins. Completed work will be posted.

 

It may be mid-January, but I am still

sending out "late" winter/holiday/New Year cards... after I fulfilled standing orders for repeat clients

for holiday cards, which I started in October, I am finally getting around to doing my own!

About 50 go out every year, and often result in requests for larger original paintings.

 

FALL BOUNTY

14x17  Floated. Watercolor on 300 lb Arches.  Colletion of the artist.