After ten years in Austin Texas, I have returned home to New York City and it truly feels like rekindling a love affair.

The streets are haunted with memories and my heart pulls me around corners and into buildings.  I have to admit the rumors are true, the city has changed drastically during my sojourn in the west.  But, the places that hold fast to my very being are still here.  Thus, as I am a painter, I am painting.

I have vowed to paint one major landscape of New York City a month for the duration of one year.

Thats twelve in total large landscape paintings that I will have completed by December of 2016.

I am choosing “Classic” New York.   The New York City that HAS NOT CHANGED.

I am choosing places that have meant something in my life, places that contribute to the tone, color and texture of a city that speaks to the hearts of people all over the globe.

I began in December 2015 in the heart of the village which is where my life in New York began.

A winter night in Washington Square Park, it was cold and rainy and I admit I was more than a little tipsy…sloshing around snapping photos because the entire world seemed to be blue and purple…thus was born the first painting.

 

December

Washington Square Rain

 

 

I felt so connected to this painting when it was finished.  It began to feed my mind with other images of New York that I would like to paint and thus the series was born.

 

January found me high atop a rooftop one morning quite by chance.  I was frozen but absolutely awestruck by the pink and white foggy morning light coming up over Queens and I was enchanted, yet again, by the striking beauty of The Chrysler Building.

 

January

Chrysler Building Morning.

 

I took some liberties with this image as you may notice. In Fact, there is not actually a billboard advertising “daiZnyc” with a poster style painting of Blue and I dancing on the side of the building..not yet, anyway.

 

 

February

Jefferson Market Library

February has again brought me back to the village.  I chose the Jefferson Market Library on the corner of 10th and 6th Avenue to be the focus of this month.  With a nod to Valentines day, I wanted this painting to be something I truly love.  When I set foot into this library for the first time I thought I had definitely reached a version of Utopia.  When I learned the buildings history it solidified itself into my imagination.  You may notice among the pedestrians on the sidewalk, the image of the artist and her sweetheart.

 

 

 

 

March

Night at The Apollo

Of my favorite places to hear music has always been The Apollo.  Taking the subway to Harlem and walking along 125th St. with my eyes on the the famous neon blade and the anticipation of the great art or spoken word within. The vibrancy of Harlem – the neon glow and the rhythm of the street all create a mood in this painting both glowing and curious.

 

COMING SOON –

April

105th and Riverside Dr.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION