The Ford (George "Frolic" Weymouth)

[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.

[Thomasin Dewhurst]

This is lovely, Alex! Really lovely. The figure is so much a part of the landscape, as is the dog, and the figure is so alive and alert. The composition is so beautiful too because of the v-shape that goes horizontally into the imagined space of the picture, with the man looking outwards and the dog looking inwards. I have a lot more to say, but I only have a minute to write this. I will look and write more tomorrow morning.

[Alexandra Tyng]

Thank so much, Thomasin! I think I finally tweaked the photos so they look a little more accurate.

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

What an interesting concept and harmonius composition. The surface looks so lively without missing out on revealing the structure.
Beautiful
Ilaria

[Linda Brandon]

This is a wonderful painting, Alex. I'm so happy that the Society asked you to paint this and that it got such a warm reception. You are a hugely talented and productive artist.

I'm so proud to be your friend (and thanks for driving me around, I really owe you one).

[Tom Edgerton]

This is a truly marvelous work, throughout.

The balance of focus between figure and ground, and the subtlety of it, is without parallel.

Just wonderful!

[Allan Rahbek]

Alex,
I so like this painting. It's not just a portrait, but something more, it's a portrait of a place on earth that has become part of the person portrayed.

I admire how you have balanced the elements and integrated the figures of man and beast in the landscape paying equal attention to all, it's man in balance with nature, my favorite mantra.

[Alexandra Tyng]

Thank you so much, Allan!

Originally Posted by Allan Rahbek

It's not just a portrait, but something more, it's a portrait of a place on earth that has become part of the person portrayed.
I admire how you have balanced the elements and integrated the figures of man and beast in the landscape paying equal attention to all, it's man in balance with nature, my favorite mantra.

I am so glad you feel this way! It is what I hoped to achieve and it means a lot that you notice these things.