Carrie’s Painting of the Week
Springtime on the Salt Marsh
By Carrie Jacobson
For weeks now, I’ve been pushing at something – or, more accurately, something’s been pushing at me – and yesterday, with this painting, I think it pushed through.
It’s hard to explain this feeling. I wrote here, first, that I was a little dissatisfied with my paintings recently – but that’s not really right, as I have loved my recent paintings.
I think it’s more that I have had this idea, an idea of a feeling that I’ve wanted the paintings to have, and they just haven’t had that feeling, not completely. But since it’s something I haven’t really felt myself, and something I haven’t seen, all I’ve known is that the stuff I’ve been doing has not created that feeling. Not catalyzed it, at least not for me.
With this little painting, I feel that I’ve broken through. There’s something in this piece, in the colors, in the daubs and smooshes of paint, in the luscious quality of the marsh against the thinner quality of the sky, something that gives me the feeling I’ve been seeking.
Freedom? Joy? Awakening? I still don’t know what it is, exactly, but I know that this piece begins to have it.
Tags: carriejacobson, oil painting, salt marsh
April 26th, 2012 at 10:27 am
Carrie,
I love the daubs and smooches in your marsh painting. I love marshes, and can barely stand to drive on by the ones we see when we travel here in Maine. I have favorites, you see.This is an interesting way to handle the marshes of this season, and I commend you.
Cheers,
Another marsh lover,
Jean
April 26th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Whatever it is, I like it!
Michael
April 26th, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Thanks for the note, Jean! I love the marshes, too – the one in Maine that I love is on the Turnpike near Yarmouth. Falmouth? Just before you get to Freeport.
I paint lots of marshes – I am an addict! – so check out my blog, too: carriejacobson.blogspot.com. You can sign up to get the blog emailed to you when I have new paintings…
I really appreciate the note!
May 1st, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Carrie, I like the smooshes and the way the color of the sky is reflected in the marsh.
May 3rd, 2012 at 6:53 am
Hi, Anita and Michael – Just found your comments in my spam folder! I am so glad you like this painting. I continue to find it very interesting, and continue to feel that it’s a gateway to…. well who knows? We’ll see!