Robert Rigsby, Jr.'s Artspan Blog

I've not been to the beach recently and have been inspired by some of the old unkempt houses in the county.  I did a plein air of one just a couple of miles from my home.  What interested me was not the house itself, but the trees and wildflowers growing around it.  We've had a wet, warm spring and the purple and red henpeck was blooming in the fields all around the house.  The china berry trees where not just growing around the house but were sprouting through the floorboards of the porch and growing out window frames.  This once site of order and domestication was now the home of wildlife and wildflowers.  A truly feral house.

  If you are interested in this painting or would like to see other 'feral houses,' please contact me.