T GARRETT EATON Broken StonesThe online challenge was straightforward: paint a graveyard, en plein air, using a limited palette. The overall winner, T Garrett Eaton – the “T” is for Thad – born a mile from Mountain View Cemetery, in Oakland CA, painted his local resting place. Eaton, who had never painted a graveyard scene, grew up in the Bay Area, attended college in Santa Cruz, and has an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He returned to Oakland to live, and frequently walked in Mountain View Cemetery. In 2007, Antwerp set about reselling 2,000 city graves, but in T Garrett Eaton’s painting of Mountain View Cemetery, the graves are old, the occupants are staying put.

Source: Irish Independent June 06, 2021 01:39 UTC