[Alexandra Tyng]

Oil on linen, 36" x 48"

Here's the portrait I unveiled at the PSA conference last weekend. The PSA asked me to do it as part of the award given to George A. (Frolic") Weymouth, a landscape and portrait painter who also founded the Brandywine River Conservancy and Museum, and is the museum's present director. Mr. Weymouth received the award for Leadership in the Fine Arts.

I envisioned the portrait as really a figure in a landscape. As I explained at the PSA banquet, I wanted his figure to blend into the landscape, to become one with the environment, but also to emerge from the landscape just enough to be a focal point. The winter colors around Pennsylvania are very subtle, and Mr. Weymouth's clothing was very similar in color to the landscape.