jennerjahns

Pete's studio sits above their summer home on a hillside, the glass doors face the north and there are two skylights into the naturally lit studio.

Pete's reflections on the area and art work.

Most of my life had been lived in flat, or rolling country. And most of that in cities. So the Adirondack experience was a pleasant, awesome visual encounter.

Stand in one spot, pivot around, and see the skyline rise and fall. If one is able to sample what happens to the foliage over the course of a year, you are in for drastic changes in color, texture and mood.

This is what attracted me, and I was continually discovering surprises that stimulated my drawings and paintings.

I've worked in all traditional media and have ranged from traditional to abstraction in my responses.

With over 35 years of enjoying and interpreting this area of the Adirondacks I have chosen to shake up my approach to these familiar themes.

To find untapped resources within myself, I am currently exploring the pouring of paint rather than brushing it on. It's a new language, and I'm expecting to be able to speak with fresh and more eloquent means in my work.

The seven minute walk to my studio passes through mosses, woodsorrel and frogpond.
Then up to the level of my studio and the view of the Sentinal Range,
gives me space to separate from garden and kitchen.

I taught dance at Black Mountain College, and most of my work--oil, acrylic, pastel, oil stick has an expressive movement, and often responds to the weather--calm, stormy, foggy.