Sunset, Saturday, 6 June 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.The sunset tonight is for a very private person we’ll call ‘Howard.’ Howard’s father, an American G.I., died at Omaha Beach 65 years ago today. Howard was born to the G.I.’s English bride just around two weeks later.

Howard, now a phenomenally successful American entrepreneur, has let me know he thinks painting the sunset every day is a terrific waste of time. But that, as the saying goes, ‘don’t confront me.’ That’s Howard being Howard.

And, I have to say, he’s hardly ever wrong about these things ...