Oh The Places We've Been | Ric Feeney

• My Garden's Fall Flurry

  Watercolor, 21 x 10. The leaves aren't the only plants that have a flurry of color in the Fall!

• head light

  Watercolor, Paper, 15 x 20. Seven years ago I went on a New England and Canada cruise of Fall colors. This year I found a sketch I had done of the Portland Head Light. this is done loosely and with much joy.

• Amish laundry line

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 22

• old montreal

  Watercolor, Paper, 20 x 25. It took 4 years to finish this, but I did!

• Bee on White Lilac

  Watercolor, 10 x 12. This is from a photo I took in the last week or so. It's spring in the North Country. Warm days, cool nights. Everything in bloom. A visual and aromatic sensation! The Bee is fairly realistic. Every…

• Morning Has Broken

  Watercolor, 8 x 14

• Evening's Kiss Goodnight

  Watercolor, 10 x 15. Living alone the beautiful Lake Champlain I can sometimes take for granted all that is surrounding me. while waiting for the ferry to cross from Charlotte, Vermont back home I'm glad I didn't miss t…

• Once in a Very Full Moon

  Watercolor, 12 x 13

• When Iris Eyes Are Smiling

  Watercolor, 13 x 19. My friend Paul sent me a pic of his first Iris in his front yard on Westerville, Ohio. It looked something like this.

• Burst of Summer

  Watercolor, 16 x 11. In the dog days of summer, I need a burst of color, a burst of life, a burst of promise. Here it is!

• Cones on Parade

  Watercolor, 14 x 10. edition of 250

• Garden Party

  Watercolor, 9 x 13. Hurry Spring and get here! Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society chose this image for the advertising piece for their spring show!

• Resurrection

  Watercolor, 17 x 11. The story is true. I am a witness to the grace.

• With Dreams of Spring

  Watercolor, 16 x 20. A few years ago, artist Katherine Giles and I were part of the Niagara Frontier watercolor show at the 1045 Gallery in Buffalo, NY. She painted some tulips laying across a table covered with a white…

• The Lonely Milk Can

  Watercolor, 14 x 10. This was a particularly cold December with temperatures well below zero. Still on my way back from having lunch with my daughter and her family I was 'forced' to stop the car and roll down my window…

• Vermont Covered Bridge

  Watercolor, 12 x 19. There are many covered bridges in Vermont. All of them beautiful. All of them worth the drive along roads less travelled. This one, in Northfield Falls, seemed to frame the beauty it led to especial…

• Feast of the Bumble Bee

  Watercolor, 16 x 16. Sometimes you don't have to travel any further than your own front yard for inspiration!

• Yellow is the Morning

  Watercolor, 14 x 14. like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, sometimes you don't have to wander very far to find what you're really looking for. That's certainly the case with this painting. Just a couple steps out my front d…

• The Tulip Parade

  Watercolor, 10 x 16. Crossing Lake Champlain on the Essex Ferry we wound our way into Vermont through the rural community of Charlotte. In the small town square sat a sacred circle of brilliant spring flowers. They seem…

• Vermont Falls

  Watercolor, 20 x 15. While driving back to Lake Champlain from dropping off a painting at the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester, I drove through the litttle community of Pawlet. Making a sharp right turn and cro…

• Webbed Wonder

  Watercolor, 14 x 14

• Easter Trumpet

  Watercolor, 14 x 14

• St Francis' Bells (Sante Fe)

  Watercolor, 17 x 13. There's a sense of wonder and worship standing in the shadow of a centuries old church. There's a unique clarity looking into the New Mexico sky. The bells and the building are calling for us to fin…

• Cone Flowers Afire

  Watercolor, 27 x 18. This painting is currently hanging in the Adirondack Art Association in Essex, NY. I'm a big fan of cone flowers. They are proud and bold and beautiful and unashamed. Whereas I am modest and humble…

• Wadhams Power Plant

  Watercolor, 14 x 21. Prints of this painting are available.

• Winter's Last Hurrah

  Watercolor, 21 x 14

• Eyeing His Next Meal

  Watercolor, 21 x 14. Somehow when you stand beneath a totem you start to see what the first Americans saw. God and nature working it it all out.

• Drinking in Nature's Beauty

  Watercolor, 21 x 14. At the base of a receding glacier there she was, drinking in nature's beauty.

• Milkweed Cathedral

  Watercolor, 29 x 19

• Dried Bouquet

  Watercolor, 18 x 12. My daughter Meghan knows I like flowers, even more than her mom. Late last summer she picked me an arrangement of wild blooms from around Queen City Farm and placed them in one of her canning jars.…

• Wake on the Lake

  Watercolor, 14 x 10. Travelling from the Marina in Willsboro, NY over to Burlington, VT the boat created a dynamic blend o swirling blues on Lake Champlain.

• Church Steeple--the center of town

  Watercolor, 14 x 10. In Columbus, Ohio over Christmas I did a pen and ink drawing of this scene from Burlington, VT. I painted it in Willsboro, NY. In New England as in cities all over the world, the church is the cente…

• A Nod To Georgia O

  Watercolor, 17 x 25. Abstraction. Essence. The heart of the matter. Nuff said.

• Fishing the Lake at Sunset

  Watercolor, 18 x 27. This is from a photo taken of a late August sunset off the point in Willsboro, NY, looking towards Vermont. Tho the sun was setting behind me, all the light bouncing off the wall of clouds seemed to…

• Jeweled Leaves

  Watercolor, 14 x 21. When I was walking to my daughter's home after an early morning rain, I looked down and saw 2 jeweled leaves posing for me on the newly poured sidewalk. Living in an urban setting sometimes you have…

• Foggy Mountain Breakdown

  Watercolor, 14 x 21. On a shortcut from Rt 22 over to the Northway, just past the bakery in Wadhams, NY I came around a corner and this old homestead in the early morning grey said, "Hey Ric, paint me when you get back…

• Good Morning Grain Elevators

  Watercolor, 18 x 6

• Foxglove Passion

  Watercolor, 11 x 8. Last summer I was surprised to discover an enormous rain forest... in Alaska. This was my first visit and I was prepared for calving glaciers and panning for gold, igloos, etc. While the rest of my t…

• Aspenglow

  18 x 12. My best guess is that the white birch of the northeast and the Rocky Mountain aspen have a common ancestor. I am humbled by both. As the pure morning light hit this grove of aspen everything began to glow. The…

• Foggy St John's Morning

  Watercolor, 18 x 14

• Abandoned to Rust

  Watercolor, 12 x 18

• Portland, Maine Head Light

  Watercolor, 14 x 20

• Bermuda Window Treatment--St Peters Church

  Watercolor, 21 x 14

• The Shack

  Watercolor, 19 x 25.5. Heading east out of Evergreen, Co on a back road driving home to Denver, we were caught up in a snowstorm of unique beauty. Manuvering slowly down the hills we went around a corner and caught a gl…

• Praying Through the Night

  Watercolor, 18" x 28". The Cathedral at St Rheims, France; lit from the outside by the sun, from the inside by candlelight. Prints of this painting are available.

• I Lift My Eyes Up (Canterbury Cathedral)

  Watercolor, 16 x 24. The Canterbury Cathedral, England...with the camera placed on the sanctuary floor pointing straight up...!

• Playing Holy Hand Games

  Watercolor, 20 x 14. In the courtyard of a centuries old cathedral in England 2 young ladies enjoying their break from choir rehersal.

• Bermuda, setting out for deep waters

  Watercolor, 17 x 25. While taking the ferry shuttle from the hotel over to Hamilton I noticed some young teens being pulled out to deeper waters to enhance their sailing skills. While most scenes are tinkered with to ma…

• Bermuda Shutters and Shadows

  Watercolor, 21 x 15

• Bermuda Birds of Paradise

  Watercolor, 28 x 19. Lush, vibrant life calling out from every living thing. Stay a while. Let me wash over your mind with peace.

• Bermuda Scooter

  Watercolor, 14 x 21. With gas prices higher in Bermuda than even Buffalo, and a huge tax on importing cars, the scooter is the go to means of transportation all over the island. And most of the roads are just the right…

• Bermuda Wildflowers

  Watercolor, 14" x 21". Perhaps it's the pure moist air that makes the blooms so vibrant on Bermuda...whatever the explanation their beauty takes my breath away.

• Waterlillies 3

  Watercolor, 25.5 x 17

• Waterlily Taking A Stand

  Watercolor, 20 x 13. A second waterlily from the park near Steve and Anna's stomping grounds.

• I Gotta Get Me Some Wheels

  Watercolor, 28 x 18. St. George's Cycle Livery, in Bermuda. Wow! Not many places where you can rent motorcycles and purchase centuries old bicycles!

• A Waterlily that's a Head Above the Crowd

  Watercolor, 19 x 27. A year ago, I was a nervous father-of-the-bride, as our daughter's reception was held at this carefully manicured park in downtown Columbus, Ohio. This spring we revisited Goodale Park, the scene of…

• Widmer Vineyard Barn

  Watercolor, 29 x 18. If you take the time to drive around beautiful Lake Canondaigua you'll go through Naples, NY home of Widmer Winery and a very attractive barn marking the Widmer homestead.

• Grape Arbor Bed and Breakfast

  Watercolor, 14 x 21. Scattered between the PA turnpike and the Maryland border are georgous old farm houses from well before the civil war. Many of them have been restored with updated plumbing for the modern traveler,…

• Secret Gate of Social Circle

  Watercolor, 27 x 16. There are several storybook towns in Georgia. Social Circle is one of the best.

• Morning Run of the Wm Breckinridge

  Watercolor, 28 x 20. At six in the morning this city is still deep in sleep. But along the waterfront, hotel cleaning staff scurry to their jobs single file and the tug boats take charge of the giants in the bay. Prints…

• Pretty Boats all in a Row

  Watercolor, 18 x 27

• Meet me at Tootsies..that honky tonk...

  Watercolor, 28 x 14. This is actually called, "Meet me at the original Tootsies...you know, that honky-tonk next to Second Fiddle." Downtown Nashville, TN.

• Mother Church of Country Music

  Watercolor, 27 x 16. How much of a building is necessary to identify it? I chose just a corner of the Ryman Auditorium to symbolize some of the sacred roots of this, the Mother Church of country music.