I love this damn photo. The idyllic images it stirs in memory.German gardens of the Romantic period of the early 1800s: stag awaits in framed pasture. (Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler and his gardens.)
Ironically this is in a dodgy post-industrial neighborhood in Livingston, Montana. Taken before an afternoon of painting session of a gorgeous model in my friend's awesome studio loft. While I take credit for designing the house, he single-handily designed and planted the garden (Big Sky Journal article). We are two painters, dreamers, lovers-turned-friends; we often mutter about turning the design world upside-down as a duo. Word out to Hugh Wilson who's on some Pacific island at this moment, likely dancing under thick tropical air after a day of long, hard painting. The deer and his lover, however, are feasting on the perennials as I write.
(Above) My painting that came out of that afternoon. "Daniella" oil on canvas.
(Below) The studio space, not dolled up as it was for the published shoot. Renovated garage.
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| Above photo: Audrey Hall |
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