In The Zone – Mary at Martin on Main

In The Zone – Mary at Martin on Main

by | Dec 26, 2024 | People & Animals

18×22 / Oil on MDF panel / NFS This portrait painting was a 2024 Christmas gift for my beautiful wife, Mary. I took the reference photo of Mary testing out a Martin Sunburst D-35 guitar while at “Martin on Main” an annual festival in Nazareth, PA in July...
Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving Break

by | Dec 26, 2024 | Landscape & Seascape, People & Animals

18×22 / Oil on MDF panel / On Reserve Being with loved ones and connected to nature… it’s a simple pleasure with enormous importance and significance for me. With this work, I am trying to recreate the feelings of peaceful togetherness I felt on this chilly...
Kestrel Hill Preserve

Kestrel Hill Preserve

by | Dec 26, 2024 | Landscape & Seascape, People & Animals

10×20 / Oil on Linen Panel / SOLD This is a painting of my father, Peter Strawbridge, and Bonnie Van Alen (and their beloved labs) pausing to look out over a colorful meadow in Kestrel Hill Preserve. The rolling hills, woodlands and wetlands of this 90-acre...