Merrimack River Painters

REFLECTIONS

By Susan Levenson

After my retirement from three art related careers, I began painting in watercolors, something I had never done before.

I think the choice occurred because I love the freshness one derives from the transparencies that form where the paper does the work and the paint flows into one another.

Now that autumn has arrived, I watch the leaves turn and float into the air like the world is ever changing. This is part of life today and I feel that I am expressing its possibilities in my painting.

I love to paint. It allows me to lose myself into consciousness for long stretches of time, which seem no more than a few moments.

Painting allows a sense of accomplishment, where one paints for the love of it, not for selling or competition, but only for something that one owns into one’s self.

While on location in New Castle, NH, I saw three youngsters fishing in a small inlet.

I painted this busy scene in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. I loved the arrangement of pilings, the fishing architecture and the boat.

 The gardens of the Hamilton Estate in Berwick Maine, along the river.