It’s been a while but I finally can see the end of this move. There are still some stray items that have to be resolved …like selling the property in [...]

As difficult as it is to get all of this work packed and ready for the mover, it will be more difficult to find and organize everything once I get [...]

I had planned to take the heaviest pieces off the pedestals and get them on them onto dollies so they would be ready to move if I still have them [...]

I have received a commitment from the lender and the seller has agreed to make the repairs on the barn. Now we have to wait for the weather to get [...]

Looks like the story is going to change a bit over the next several weeks. I just came back from a trip to CT and I have a contract on [...]

For those who may have been wondering why I haven’t posted any new work lately.  A virus hit me on the day before Christmas. That progressed into vertigo and I’ve [...]

Construction is going well on the new 3D piece which has a working title of “Reclining Nude” but as usual I’m only good for an hour or two before I [...]

The painting is at the stage where I don't know what to do next so it may be finished, I'll have to look at it for a while before I [...]

I’ve seen this happen before. I’ll like what I’m working on and will spend a lot of time trying to make it move the eye better but after a while [...]

For those of you who follow the site, I thought you might be interested in following the progress of this painting. The process up to now is familiar to me [...]

I've completed the texturing on a yet untitled new painting. This part of the process is purely intuitive. There are favorite tools and materials that I use but what goes [...]

I have given up on buying another property until spring...unless something new shows up. Everything that I was interested in has sold above my bid and the inventory is way [...]

This piece has been relatively dormant since last summer. Eventually, I found myself walking into the studio after dinner and just looking at the painting. One day I picked up [...]

For those of you who might be wondering what happened to the new work I told you was coming along; I have to admit I have been distracted. I spent [...]

I began "The Andean" a few weeks ago as a form of therapy. Since then I have spent more time looking at it than working on it. Every once in [...]

I've got a story to tell. Many of you know that I have been trying to sell my place in Orange and move back north. There is a way that [...]

In case you have been wondering where I have been…… Shorty after I posted the last piece my 15-year-old dog developed an incurable heart problem and I had to put [...]

I knew it would happen. Over the weekend I found myself in the studio working on something new. There is still one more painting that is on the easel but [...]

I've noticed in the past that when I finish a piece that takes several weeks to finish I find it difficult to get into the rhythm of working on something [...]

The work on this site has always been for sale but I have never had a proper vehicle to make that easy for you before now. As a test we [...]

Often, when I’m starting a new series I go back to something I have done before to get the juices flowing. In this case I based the original drawing for [...]

I plan to live with it for a while before I show it to see if anything else comes up. This is the largest piece in the series so far. [...]

It’s interesting when you have to leave a piece just as it is beginning to develop. Due to construction in the painting studio I was forced to stop working on [...]

Over the past few weeks the painting studio has been torn up and redone. Everything is now pristine and it’s ready to get messed up again. With the place stripped [...]

In between working on the 3D series I’ll often begin a painting on canvas as a way of relaxing from the mental exercise of assembling the many small pieces that [...]

I got side tracked from working on the Sheffield #6 piece while the base color was drying. While cleaning up all of the small pieces cut from the shapes used [...]

Many of you are aware that my building in Orange has been on the market for a while. The usual MLS listings have not managed to produce the right buyer [...]

Just a reminder. Along with the new work I am doing I have created a series of limited edition canvas prints. I'm only doing 10 of each. These are printed [...]

The roughs that I kept from my trip to the Berkshires last summer have turned into some interesting paintings. For the time being that series is finished. There was one [...]

Between the time that I started this painting and I finished it I had cataract surgery. I’ve been putting it off for 2 years and now that it’s done I [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qa1JSVeB9Y I thought you might be interested in seeing the process I use in creating most of my paintings. Of the several rough sketches I kept from the Sheffield series [...]

The opening reception for my new show took place last weekend before the arrival of that huge storm; it was well received by those who were able to make it. [...]

I’ve got 2 large pieces working now. Another large Sheffield painting and a 3D from the same series. As a counter point to those pieces I began something that was [...]

While working on the Sheffield series I sometimes walk away from the 5 foot paintings and play with something smaller. This one was based on an oil sketch I made [...]

So far I have scaled 2 of these up to very large paintings and I love the scale. They will be in my new show, which opens on October 27 [...]

I actually didn't have as much left to do on this as I thought, just enough to make a difference and tighten it up. The toughest part was getting it [...]

This is # 4 in the series. It is on canvas and will ultimately be stretched on a 4'x5' frame. As I've said before, I usually put on any color [...]

I looks as if the sketches I made when I was in MA this summer are going to be the source of several paintings and at least one 3D wall [...]

It took a while to get into the rhythm of working after a month away from the studio but the flow if now pretty steady. Before I completed the 3D [...]

In the post I wrote in January I tried to describe the road the truckers had to navigate when they brought stone down from the mountain. I just came across [...]

I was extremely surprised when my two granddaughters presented me with a fantastic Jackson Pollock. The kicker is ...they did the painting. Kara who is 7 did the brush flicking [...]

I’m back from a month in the Berkshires of MA. This has been a perfect refueling stop. I’ve spent enjoyable time with my family, scouted most of the towns in [...]

As usual I laid in a color scheme just to get something to work on. Then I began to change it. I’m not very good at preconceiving the finished color [...]

Once the basic construction is completed and the blending and texturing has been applied it becomes important to get rid of any flaws before moving on. If I get in [...]

As stated in the last post , It was my intent to use a hot palette on this piece to counter the very cool colors of the first Geisha.. I [...]

As usual this piece has been "finished" several times. I’ve found that when I’m working white on white in the beautiful light of the sculpture studio it is difficult to [...]

The rough construction of Geisha #2 is now complete. Over the next several days the joints will disappear… sort of. I’ll be working on it as a sculptor and using [...]

A few posts back I showed you the drawing for Geisha #2. I’m going to follow the progress of the piece on here for those of you who have said [...]

The title line comes from a prologue i wrote to a short film I did on why i was ready to leave Manhattan. It was sometime in the late 60's. [...]

I’ve always been amazed at the way the creative juices flow.. at least with me. When I get into a series the work will move from one piece to another [...]

I’m now up to number eight on the new series . Each one takes about a month to complete and I’m shooting toward 12 of them before I try to [...]

After working on three of the new pieces the process of constructing the wall sculpture has become more familiar. It doesn’t speed up mind you because I still have to [...]

Until now I have been showing the growth pattern of the 3D series on my Studio Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/edjaffegallery For those of you new my work I’ll try to do [...]

I've been to Ecuador several times and have driven past more that one volcano but i never saw anything like this. Amazing. http://io9.com/5898440/theres-so-much-awesome-in-this-photograph-i-can-hardly-stand-it

By following this blog and checking my page on Facebook. (You can do that by clicking the F on the top of the page) you are probably aware  of two [...]

Do you ever get a small burn on your hands from the kitchen or anything else?. Since I've been working with a hot glue gun on these new pieces I [...]

The last post got me thinking about how the current series of painted wall sculpture came about. As I looked back on it I was surprised to see a definite [...]

Creating sculpture has always seemed a natural thing to do. Taking stone away from a block of marble and allowing a form to come alive just seemed to happen once [...]

I went to Guatemala the first time in search for exotic hard woods. I had been sculpting with them for years but the sources dried up as the third world [...]

Years ago in Vermont and here in Orange I realized that if I choose to operate a metropolitan art gallery in a small town in the country I have to [...]

I’ve been giving some thought to how I moved from what I used to paint to what I’m doing now. As usual with me there was a slow unplanned process. [...]

I am often asked what made me move from Vermont to Virginia. The short answer is this, I blew my knees and couldn’t ski anymore. The long answer is a [...]

Back the early eighties I was sculpting in many mediums to see what I would like vs what I didn’t like. I didn’t like fiberglass. I loved carving wood. I [...]

I remember visiting some friends in St Croix, Virgin Islands one winter in the early 70’s. They told me there was this ”hippie type guy” out on the end of [...]

When I purchased the 18th Century house in Chester, VT it required a total restoration. The first thing I had to attend to was the Maple tree that was too [...]

I wonder how many artists out there do what I used to do. For many years I would throw away my preliminary sketches and quite often I’d trash a drawing [...]

I did some paintings in the 50’s that were good enough to give away but I never thought about selling them. Painting in those years was only a hobby. I [...]

This sale brought to my attention the fact that the internet may work after all. [:-) Rodrigo   oil   24"x 30" When you consider that I cut my [...]

Back in the 80’s I was working on a series of sculpture that was based on broken sea shells . What I produced then still has an influence on my [...]

I'm re-posting my earliest blog so people new to the site can have the introduction. For those of you who are new to this site and my work there are [...]

One day when I was living in Vermont I remember driving through Putney on my way to Brattleboro. As I drove down the Putney Road I passed a crew taking [...]

After talking to many artists over the years I’ve come to the conclusion that all of us; painters, sculptors, writers , etc. face a blank wall every once in a [...]

Getting stone from Portugal was a real problem early on. Most of the established artist had left Portugal during the revolution in 1974. When things settled down they already had [...]

After running the post on Carrara yesterday I began to think about what an interesting place this is.  In a sense it is a typical factory town but here the [...]

Carrara : Where the mountain tops look snow covered: and the rivers run white.... It’s marble. I had been to Italy before but this time I was there to buy [...]

If you would like to keep up with my work on a more current basis head over to my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/edjaffegallery and become a fan by hitting the [...]

Marc has never been able to sit still for too long. Even at 5-6 months old. I had been sculpting for about 2 years when he was born in 1960. [...]

Why would a sculptor who paints want to visit the dry barren west side of Spain called Estremadura? Sheepmeadow Oil 36"x 48" SOLD Now living in California In [...]

In 1988 I was carving a series based on African Art. i carved this piece out of Macacauba wood from Africa. It is 15.5"x 15"x 6.5". there was something humorous [...]

For those of you who are new to this site and my work, there are 3 of my interviews available here. They should give you all of the history that [...]