
Gossip Hour



I keep returning to the subject matter that I often refer to as nothingness. A seemingly empty sky on a field of 136 day old corn and a murmur of Starlings coming to perch.

Sometimes I have to turn away from a current series and do something completely different. Today it was black and white cityscape day. We have been to London three times in the last two years, renting a flat for a week with friends, then traveling on. Last fall it was a week in the Cotswolds. Loved!

36×36 oil paint on gallery wrap canvas

Driving around central Iowa during the early harvest and you often will find a group, a grumble, or a chattering of starlings in the fields.

I recently added the birds to this painting, which was earlier posted as Early Corn. This version is much more desirable to be around.