Framed Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Den Helder, Netherlands 2023 recycled metal - Brand and handles from

- Brand and handles from vegetable-tanned leather

from an old general store that just closed in upstate New York —  they still contain the aspirin

The brush rest is made from extinct* American Chestnut beams that held up our barn for nearly 200 years

imagined animals

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Framed Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Den Helder, Netherlands 2023 recycled metal - Brand and handles fromLight changes, colors transform, shadows emerge and fade. Each time I step into nature I am confronted with its fleeting intricacies juxtaposed with its promise of enduring newness. My excursions with paint and brush are a humble attempt to capture moments of this change to live in the now. Each painting is a time capsule containing a multitude of hidden details: the feeling of the cold sand on my bare feet, the itchy bites of a hoard of mosquitos,