WORK — JOSIE MERCK

STONE WALLS

This series has been created mostly from scraps and shards of fabric from old and beloved clothes worn by members of our family. The pieces are not unlike the bits and pieces found in the ground on Block Island--where the glacier landed and scoured the land long long ago. Over the 100's of years of farming in this terrain stone walls accumulated on the boundaries of the pastures or tilled fields. Lichen-covered in ochres and black and soft greens, they tell a cultural, historic and biological story of colors, shapes and textures that never cease to delight my eyes.

Big Rock

2013, mixed media, 11" x 14"

Blue Horizon

2012, acrylic on cotton,27" x 35"

Cheesy Burlap

2013, mixed media, 16" x 31"

Rocks and Rags

2012, MIXED MEDIA, 14" X 18"

Clouds Over Walls

2013, mixed media, 11" x 30"

Clouds Over Wall 2

2013, mixed media, 12" x 24"

History with Fabrics

2013, mixed media, 21" x 54"

Jangle Jumble

2012, ACRYLIC ON COTTON, 32" X 60"

Orange Ground

2013, mixed media, 15 1/2" x 26", 2013

Orange Peep Hole

2013, 12" x 16", mixed media

Sumi Wall Scrawl

2013, watercolor and sumo, 18" x 31"

DEER

Recent work 2012- through present. These animals share our landscapes through no fault of their own now. They proliferate and they over-browse.And they are our antelopes in our suburban Serengeti. Innocent and elegant, I have drawn them whenever i can and have used deer on a standing screen and in earlier paintings as well.

Guardian Buck

2013, 60" x 60", tempera on cotton duck

Dawn Faun

2012, 48" x 58", acrylic

Deer and Crows Sketch

2012, 30" x 221/2", oil on paper

Deer Dance at Blue Tree

2012, 60" x 55", oil on canvas

Ghost Buck

2014, 56" x 56", oil on canvas

Red Buck on Guard

2014, 40" x 35", oil on canvas

The Apple with Crows and Deer

2012, 50" x 50", oil on canvas

Oh Deer

2000, 42" x 42"

WEEDS, ROCKS, AND RAILS

The Title comes from the one person Show at Atlantic Gallery in New York with work inspired by the New York City Park called the Highline, an elevated discarded railroad bed transformed into walking paths and gardens based on the wild plants and flowers that survived and thrived there over the years.

Paintings, prints, drawings, shower curtains, and a film were all part of the show.

Weeds On Rails

30" x 30", oil on canvas, 2009

Along the Rails

15 " x 19" monoprint

Digitalis

14" x 18", oil on canvas

Grass Slump I

11" x 12" monoprint

Lawn ll

2009 - 11x14 watercolor

Lawn lV

2009 - 11x14 watercolor

Lawn III

11' x 14", watercolor

Mullein

!2" x 12" oil on canvas

Seed Heads

18'x 16". monoprint

Digitalis

2009,10" x 14", collage on canvas

Urban Delight

18" x 16" monoprint 2009

Evening Highline

2009, 72" x 72", oil on wood panels

Double Rails

2009, 22" x 30", mixed media

Green Highline

2009, 72" x 73". oil on panels

Hosta

2009, 16" x 20", oil

Joe Pie Weed

2009, 28" x 22', oil on canvas

Meadow I

2009, 21" x 29", mixed media

October Array

2009, 18" x 16", monoprint

October on Rails

2009, 11" x 15" drawing, mixed media

Plantway

2009, 24" x 30", oil on canvas

Pokeweed

2009, 16' x 20", oil on canvas

Railside

2009, 11" x 20", monoprint

Red Gate

2009, 11" x 14", collage

Weed Dance

2009, 52" x 74", charcoal

Rhapsody

2009, 24" x 36", oil on canvas

Shower curtain #1

2009

Rhubarb and More

2009, 68" x 56", oil on wood

Rocks and Weeds

2009, 22" x 28", oil on canvas

Shower Curtain 2

2009

Red Cedar

oil on canvas, 30" x 40"

LANDSCAPES

ANDY'S POND

1992, 14" x 18", oil on canvas

Big Pink Woods

2003, 88" x 68", oil on panel

Garrison Tidal Marshes

2003, 48" x 36", oil on canvas

Dobbs Ferry

2003, 40" x 30", oil on canvas

Garrison Wetlands

2003, 30" x 22", oil on paper

Tractor 1

2007, 16" x 20", mixed media

At the Blue Trout

1999, 21" x 21", mixed media

Blue Cedar Bridge

2003, 69" x88", oil on panel

Blue Rail

1999, 36" x 24", oil

Chickory in July

1997, 24" x 27", oil

John's Pond

1997, 30" x 40", oil

Pink Bridge

1999, 30" x 24", oil

Mansion Beach 2

2003, 23" x 18", watercolor

Slope

1999, 30" x 40", oil

Chaa Creek

2003, 33" x 26", oil on canvas

Winter Bamboo

2002, 68" x 66", oil on panel

Rail Crossing

30" x 22", oil on paper

Wide Rail View

30" x 14", oil on paper

Cold Spring

14" x 11", oil, 1996

Croton Dam I

22" x 30", oil on paper

Down Valley

31" x 34", mixed media, 1999

Dune Backs

20" x 48", oil on canvas, 1999

To the South

24" x 16", oil on canvas, 1994

CRITTERS

A Collection of 28 Postcards, published in 2008, of paintings, prints,and drawings in a variety of media, covering the wide array of creatures experienced in the life of the artist. Introduction by the artist.

To order a book please send $25, postage included, to

Pass It On Press, P O Box 371, Cos Cob, CT, 06807

Catbird 12x16 04.jpg

12" x 16", oil on canvas

Osprey

20" x 16", oil on canvas

Brown on Red

11" x 15", mixed media

Green Snowy Egret

24" x 30", oil on canvas

Pair of Wolves

24" x 30", oil on canvas

GHO ( Great Horned Owl)

22" x 30", monoprint and pastel

Disappearance

14" x 16", oil on panel

Hawk in Pink Mandala

16" x !6", monoprint

Snowy Egret Ochre ll

24"x 30", oil on canvas

Blue Crow

14" x 20", watercolor

Red Bellied

12.5" x 17", mixed media

Baiji Bygone 18x24

18" x 24", oil on canvas with paper attached

Pink Collage

26" x 16", mixed media collage

Whale Flying

21" x 31", oil on canvas

Great Blue in Reeds

20" x 16", oil on canvas

Fox in Snow

14" x 20", mixed media

Prancer

17" x 21", watercolor

Great Blue ( charcoal)

14" x 11", charcoal

Mother and Child

16" x 14", oil on panel

Laughing Gulls

12" x 16", mixed media

Spy Hop, Yellow

16" x 14", oil on panel with charcoal

Owl in Winter Woods

22" x 28", oil on canvas

Soundings

30" x 20", mixed media

Black Crowned Night Heron

20" x 14", watercolor

Foxes at Studio

36" x 30", oil on canvas

Currents

24" x 18", oil on canvas

Great God Birds

72" x 70", oil on 3 panels

Dead Sparrow (Purple)

10.5" x 10" ,monoprint

FERRIES BLUFFS AND BUOYS

Almost all of the postcards are images from collages made in a 4" x 5" format .The use of recycled palette paper pages and torn up watercolors, and other detritus from around the studio was part of the project .The subject of the coastlines came from navigating the Narragansett Sound en route and around Block Island. Also exploration of the Hudson River as seen from its banks, on shore, particularly looking at the Bear Mountain Bridge and Storm King Mountain.

Introduction by Thurston Clark, author of Searching for Crusoe.

To order please send $25 ( postage included) to

Pass It on Press, P O Box 371, Cos Cob, CT, 06807

Interstate Navigation XII

Coastal Feature XV

Cover of the Book

Coastal Feature III 2000

Bluffs 2000 19" x 23" oil on canvas

Coastal Feature IX

Interstate Navigation XVI

Interstate Navigation X

Coastal Feature V

Coastal Feature VI

Coastal Feature X

Coastal Feature XI

Coastal Feature XIII

Coastal Feature XIV

Horizon

Interstate Navigation XII

Interstate Navigation II

Interstate Navigation VI

Interstate Navigation IX

Interstate Navigation Vll

Interstate Navigation VllI

Interstate Navigation X

Navigation

October II

October IV

October IX

October VII

October III

Red Buoy

Road and Buoy

NATURAL HISTORY

Observing birds and animals in their natural settings has been a life-long fascination. Here, a random collection.

(After a) Dowitcher

2009, 9" x 8", collage

Bird Array, B I

2004, 11" x 15", oil

On the Sidelines

2009, 17" x 24 1/2", collage

Willets

2008, 18" x 11", watercolor and sumi

Salt Marsh Array

16" x 20", oil on canvas

Marsh Hawk over Fields

16" x 20", oil on canvas

Marsh Hawk with Green Sky

34" x 24", oil on canvas

Marsh Hawk over Yellow Fields

30" x 24", oil on canvas

BAIJI BYE BYE

oil on canvas, 24" x 36" 2007

Brown on Red

11" x 15" , mixed media

Dead Bird with Purple

monoprint

Fox in Snow

14" x 20", mixed media

Hawks Behind Studio

11" x 15", mixed media

Man and Whale

22" x 22", oil on canvas

Osprey and Me

36" x 27", oil on canvas

Piping Plover

14" x 11", oil on canvas

Blue Crow

14" x 20" Watercolor

Blue Owl

4" x 5", collage

GRAY WHALES OF BAJA

The Gray Whales of Baja is a book of poems by Wendy Larsen with pictures by Josie Merck.

To order please send $25 ( postage included) to

Pass It on Press, P O Box 371, Cos Cob, CT, 06807

Disappearance

2006, 14" x 16", oil on panel

Cruising Along

2007, 16" x 18", collage

Mother and Calf

2007, 35" x 35", oil on canvas

Mother and Child

2007, 14" x 16", oil on panel

Man and Whale

2007, 22" x 22", oil on canvas

Whale Flying

2007, 21" x 31", oil on canvas

Leap

2007, 11" x 16", collage

Silver Tail

2007, 15.5" x 17", collage

Whales Cavorting

2007, oil on canvas

Night Surge

2007, 18.5" x 15.5", collage,

Whale Vocabulary

2007, 8 1/2" x 11 1/2", charcoal

FIGURES

Drawing or painting figures, posed or in action, figures on canvas or IPad or I Phone---always good to keep eye and hand in.

HAMMOCK II

1994, 24" x 18", oil on canvas

SUSAN INSIDE

1994, 14" x 10", oil on canvas

Booze Beggar 2012

Iphone Art

Red Towel

5.5" x 6.5", oil on paper,1994

DRAWINGS

Callabash Hanging

Callabash Rising

Digitalis I

Digitalis II

Joe Pie Weed and Aster

Looking East

Looking North

Mullein

Mullein Soft Green

Mullein White Edges

Seed Heads

Digitalis III

STANDING SCREENS

Winter Bamboo

2002, 68" x 66", oil on panel

Green Highline, 2009; 72x72; Oil on Wood

Standing screen with three panels

Green Highline, 2009; 72x72; Oil on Wood

Three paneled standing screen.

Rhubarb and More, 2009, 68" x 56", oil on wood

Standing screen with decorative painting on the back side.

Verso of Rhubarb and more

Blue Woods

Two panel screen

Blue Cedar Bridge

2003 69x88 oil on wood

Peat Pond

2003 69x88 oil on wood

Dark Night

68" x 56", oil on panel, 2006

Great God Birds

72" x 70", oil on panel

Green Pond

69" x 66", oil on panels, 2006

Blue Float

88" x 68 ", oil on panel, 2003

WORKING THE LANDS

A series based on rolling hayfields within stone walls in the scale of a small Island landscape in the middle of an ocean---including "field objects".