Lamplight Village

I have really ‘gone to town’ with charming accents I love to hide throughout my paintings. In Lamplight Village, I wanted to create a scene with a great sense of discovery to it – as though you could stroll over that stone bridge and wander around the village finding things of interest everywhere you looked.

As you ‘wander around’ this charming setting, keep you eyes open for the following small or hidden details: an artist with an easel, two hearts with initials and two hearts with no initials, a mouse (a la David Winter), one perfect rose, nine lamp posts, a man with a pipe (perhaps Normal Rockwell), and my daughters Chandler and Merritt – with a “C” or “M” on her clothing – and an “N” on my wife Nanette’s clothing.