Wandering through David Witbeck's 2024 Summer Show, one can't help but notice and fall in love with the seagulls.

 

"The gulls! For the past few years, they’ve been inserting themselves more and more into the paintings." shares Withbeck. “Anticipation is based on a boat I saw a couple of years ago that was completely covered with gulls patiently waiting for scrap bait to be tossed overboard."

Anticipation 33 x 53 $11,800

"Originally, I thought about painting Frenzy in the same horizontal format with the same boat shape almost completely obliterated by the screaming gulls," Witbeck explains. "After drawing and erasing it a few times, I decided that, when I was a photographer, I would have zoomed in to where the action was, which is what I did with the painting."
 

Frenzy 36x30 Oil $7300

"Lately, I've been feeling a change in the air with my work. I don’t know what it may be yet. Whatever it may be, I’m sure it will be in a similar irreverent style," says Witbeck "I’ve been asked to join a plein aire group, which I may do, if for no other reason, to stimulate some new ideas for the studio."

 

According to Witbeck, there are even a couple of still-lifes in the studio. 

 

"I’m fortunate to be in great health with all my original parts, but I’m not getting any younger, and I know there are many other paintings to be made."

 

Gull with Minnow 12x12 Oil $1300

Three Gulls 12x12 Oil $1300

Gull with Minnow and Sea Star 12x12 Oil $1300

Remember, Shows at 5 Chase Hill Road in Kennebunk on Saturday, July 20, for the opening of David Witbeck's summer show. All Maine Art Hill's galleries open at 10 a.m. This show runs until August 14. 


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