Mill Stream
pastel on paper
26.5 x 19.5""
1985
private collection
This was one of dozens of paintings I made at a very secluded litte
spot called Darden Mill Pond. Out in a rural area of Southampton County,
in south eastern Virginia, the woods were covered in wysteria. The perfume
of its bloom in the spring was intoxicating. The wysteria so owned the
place, it created a great canopy overhead.
I was fascinated with the water, the pond itself, the run-off below
the mill and the little ponds in the woods nearby. The sunlight and how
it played with the water and the canopy of trees and wysteria was the subject
of this series of paintings.
