“Pan in Garden, Cornish NH”

If it wasn't enough to have the inspiration of the lovely, colorful gardens at St. Gaudens' homestead in Cornish, the crowning pleasure was also being provided with a figurative sculpture, which I've always appreciated. Because it started raining when I'd completed only about half the painting on site, I was challenged to finish the painting the next day with only my visual memory for reference, a practice strongly advocated by one of my teachers, David Curtis.