Framed Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home, Hannibal MO market bag historic Warwick Furnace Lavender Farm

historic Warwick Furnace Lavender Farm with artist Claire Rosen

Each is lined with waxed canvas (Spice) and finished with a black YKK zipper

by dint of our footfalls in the dusty attic

often hidden inner-workings of a thing made

these versatile sketchbooks can take on a variety of media including pen and ink

Framed Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home, Hannibal MO market bag historic Warwick Furnace Lavender FarmLight changes, colors transform, shadows emerge and fade. Each time I step into nature I am confronted with its fleeting intricacies juxtaposed with its promise of enduring newness. My excursions with paint and brush are a humble attempt to capture moments of this change to live in the now. Each painting is a time capsule containing a multitude of hidden details: the feeling of the cold sand on my bare feet, the itchy bites of a hoard of mosquitos,