Last night as I watched the moonlight play across our garden, I couldn’t help but think of the hot, steamy summer nights of my childhood. The chorus of buzzing insects and the flickering of lightening bugs in the woods took me right back to that time. Perhaps that is why I have always been fascinated […]
Painting the Night
Painting the moonlit landscape has challenged artists for centuries. Depictions of night time motifs tend to be as much about the ideas we have about the night as they are about what we actually see. As Thoreau said, “the night is a different country” and the shifts in perception that occur in a dimly lit […]