Second Stay for Burchfield Penney Art Center Residency
Philip Koch, Chestnut Ridge Sunset:Cool pastel, 10 x 7 1/2", 2015 I'm just returned from another week at the Burchfield Penney Art Center (BPAC) in Buffalo, NY. This was my second stay as part of my being Artist-In-Residence there for this next year. It is a chance to do a lot of my own paintings all around Western New York State. This is the landscape where I was born and grew up- it's indelibly etched in my visual imagination. On a personal level it is deeply satisfying to me to paint here. One of the places I'm painting is at Chestnut Ridge Park, south of Buffalo. It's a place that was an important source for Charles Burchfield's art. Above and below are two pastels I made about the vista there that looks north to Lake Erie. Philip Koch, Chestnut Ridge Sunset: Warm pastel, 10 x 7 1/2", 2015 Both are based on the vine charcoal drawing below that I made on location with my portable easel. Philip Koch,