Woodhinge Studios

 in rural North Carolina

 Blanch, NC

Our new studios and gallery reopened this summer of 2025. We are now rehanging our completed art.

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A selection of our gallery is below. 

 

Red Chrysanthemum 36" x 36" Oil

 

 Winter Oak - 8 x 10 Watercolor

                                                      

 

 White Bird on a Rock - watercolor

 

Tree Frog -  5 x 7 Oil 

Pet Rooster - 5 x 7 Oil  

 

 

Dancers      16" X 20" Oil on Canvas

Mariana Trench        16 x 20 Oil on Canvas

The Mariana Trench is the deepest Pacific Ocean trench on Earth, with a depth of 36,037 ft., and is deeper than Mount Everest is tall. Living organisms may occasionally be found abundant even at these totally dark and frigid depths.

Massai Warrior & Wife

16 x 20 oil on canvas

Road to Akagera, Africa

16 x 20 Oil on canvas

 

Sidy's Flowers by a very young student.

chalk on black paper

 

The Farm (pen and ink drawing)

 

 

Artist’s Statement- 2025

I am a visual explorer, continually engaged in the details of everything.  I have attempted to capture these things through photography, but photo images only hold fleeting effects of light. My deepest grasp to capture everything on canvas is accomplished by painting both in my studio and outside. Controlled studio work can sometimes feel a bit sterile. Outside, called plein-air painting, an artist feels the light, the sudden cool wind and moisture or deepening cooled shadows caused by dense clouds. It evokes a personal and lasting understanding of natural phenomenon. Nature’s openness has always held me captive. Its energy and inspiration easily transcribes into plein-air and studio paintings.

I also am definitely a realist, with an ever-widening respect for The Impressionists. While I may feel a desire to convey every leaf and blade of grass, my objective remains to create for the viewer that same feeling I also experienced visually. An artist friend said once, “if you want a perfect picture, get a camera.” The essence of any scene is the feeling one takes home at the end of that day. That is what I wish to paint.

 

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