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Overcoming Obstacles: the artistic journey in the garden
In late spring, I emptied a bag of wildflower seeds into a mound of dirt I’d dug at the southeast corner of my house in rural Maryland. I raked the seeds into the soil, and it rained and rained. Green shoots began to come up, which eventually became zinnias, cosmos,…
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the creative process behind ‘mcKinleyville’
Eastern Shore, Maryland McKinleyville is the first painting that I have completed since moving here there years ago. McKinleyville is the name of the street that I live on, but it also embodies this place, rural, somewhat isolated, saturated with light and color. The painting began very differently than it…
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Two weeks in February
In November, I rented a small workspace in Baltimore. Though only about 125 sq. ft., I’ve already filled it with a table given to me by my sister, a sculptor and long-time Baltimore artist, a shaky table left by the previous tenant, a built-in table that collapsed when I leaned…
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In a New Space
I’m going to try and say something about being in a new place, and a new space. A whole new place, that is, as the old place was in the midwest. This new place is on the east coast, and it’s far less isolated than my old place. My old…
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A work on paper
Untitled 7 is a work on paper of gouache, acrylic, and cut and pasted paper that I started last summer and only completed recently. Working on a drawing of that duration has given rise to some questions.
Peter Crow - Artist 