Northfield Bridge Feb 9, 2015

This covered bridge in Northfield is one of five in the Village.

We took a day trip last week to explore them all.

This one grabbed my attention immediately.

A gentle roll down into the bridge, up and out the other side.

Chimney smoke rising from the village beyond hints of the cold morning that it was.

11X14
Watermedia on panel

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Never is a long time…

Way back when I first got serious about painting, I remember thinking I would never paint a covered bridge.

Doesn’t everybody paint covered bridges?

You see, back then I thought it was important to be different.

After 23 years of painting I’ve learned a thing or two about art, and myself.

Turns out that being different isn’t all that important.

Being yourself is.

“Pictures are exciting when they say something in a new manner, not for the sake of being different, but because the individual is different and the individual expresses himself.” – Harry Callahan

 

“Be yourself. Who else is better qualified? – Frank Giblin

 

“It’s not what you paint, but how you paint it.” – Bob Sydorowich

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  • Steve Gilzow says:

    Love the painting (wonderful shadows), love the quotations. Thanks!

  • Charlotte Birchmore says:

    Yes, we all have seen so many paintings of covered bridges, but this is very lovely, filled with sunlight and the buildings behind. Love it, Peter

  • Sunni Starkes says:

    Do you have any prints of Weston or Weston Priory? I lived there for many years and as soon as my daughter graduates here in Texas, I’m hauling myself back there for life !!

    • Nancy says:

      hi Sunni – did you look in “the art” section to see all his paintings?

    • Peter Huntoon says:

      Hi Sunni, I have several prints aviable of the Weston area. Please click on “Search” in the upper right of this page. That will open a blank dialog box where you can type “Weston” and hit enter. That will pull back all the Weston prints I have. Thanks, and let me know if I can help further!

  • Pat Giddings says:

    I received “To the Beach”, a print about Pawley’s Island in South Carolina. It is beautiful. Just what I hoped for. It makes me smile, especially with all the snow we are having in Vermont this year. Thank you.

    • Peter Huntoon says:

      So glad you like it Pat, that is a “rare” peice that is not Vermont, from a wonderful vacation we took to Pawley’s a few years ago. Would love to go back some day!

  • Brian says:

    So much I like about this painting! Nice diagonal composition, with the eye being lead from the shrubs at bottom left up through the bridge and buildings to the hill beyond. And the sense of a sunny winter’s day is enhanced by the warm color of tenacious autumn leaves (beech?) and the lively snow-shadows.

    • Peter Huntoon says:

      I can’t tell your last name here Brian so I don’t know if you are an artist or not, but either way, you think like one. Yes, beech leaves…thier tenacity is enviable. Thanks!

  • Betsy lenora says:

    Besides a country store, or sap collecting in a bucket, or cows grazing on a hillside – covered bridges are quintessentially VT. Make paintings of as many as you like, Peter! Your accompanying comments speak to my core. Thanks – and I’m ordering another pack of cards.

    • Peter Huntoon says:

      Thanks very much Betsy, I think I will. It’s so interesting (to me at least) how, over time or abruptly, how completely our world and/or personal views can change. I agree with Robert Burridge who says “if you can’t change your mind, you don’t have one”.

  • Peter….you are DEFINITELY unique and follow the call of your own individuality and THAT, my friend, makes ALL the difference in your work. Your “essence” is in your paintings and you give new voice to the areas of Vermont, that you choose to paint. As an astrologer, I LOVE to see this in a person….they are then really working the “fate” with which they were born and creating their own destiny, which then becomes their legacy. KUDOS to you!

    • Peter Huntoon says:

      Thanks so much Victoria, I think the path to becoming ourselves is a long one, perhaps without a definitive end. As long as we keep moving forward and growing. For me, creating art is that path, and it thankfully winds through Vermont. I hope we can meet some day so you can check my horoscope!

  • Wendi says:

    I so appreciate your artistic documentation and expression of the beautiful state of Vermont. I find I “go there” when I look at your paintings….ahhhh.

  • Olivia Teja says:

    My favorite bridge painting so far,and you have so many to go!

  • Thanks for the plug my friend, miss you but we’ll paint together comes spring…..which I understand is just around the corner.

  • Dianne Trivers says:

    Yet another great painting that captures our beautiful state of VT so well. Thanks for sharing!

  • Mary Reilly says:

    Stunning. Absolutely stunning.

  • Joe Roe says:

    Fabulous.

  • Nancy says:

    another lovely painting!

  • Dhyan Skinner says:

    LOVE it !!!!

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