Name: Framed Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home, Hannibal MO
Brand: Peg and Awl
Price: 240.0 USD
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Framed Original Plein Air Painting by Walter Kent: Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home, Hannibal MO

$240

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This is a one of a kind painting and is not eligible for coupon code discounts.

An original painting by Walter Kent. This batch of paintings was made on our adventures over the past few years: road trips across the United States, a sailing expedition across the North Sea from the Netherlands to the United Kingdom, morning walks in the woods close to home, and stops along my ride home from our old workshop in Philadelphia. Learn More

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Light 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, the warmth of the rising sun on my face. They hold bits of song: Light Years by the National, Madrugada’s Majesty, Sharon van Etton’s I Always Fall Apart. They contain my struggle to master color, composition, memory and the occasional triumph over my own insecurities. Within the brush strokes are the flailings of my silly dancing, the pang of an overwhelming, chest-aching desire for life, and the excitement of being overcome by a thunderous rainstorm. These plein air paintings have brought me joy and I hope they do the same for you.
—Walter