Acrylic on Canvas | 36×48 inches | 2026 | Delicacies Series
There is something almost regal about a lobster.
Claws raised, antennae proud, body arrayed in the full ceremonial splendour of that extraordinary vermillion — this is not a crustacean. This is a statement. Painted against a luminous, loosely worked background that fades from pale gold to soft green, the lobster commands the canvas the way a portrait subject commands a formal sitting — with complete, unhurried, magnificent self-possession.
Lobster is simultaneously the most New England and the most painterly thing imaginable. It carries the salt air of Cape Cod fish shacks, the paper bibs and drawn butter of a summer clam bake, the particular pleasure of cracking open something that requires effort and rewards it extravagantly. It is the taste of a New England summer distilled into paint — the long drive up the coast, the weathered dock, the cold beer, the pile of shells at the end of the meal that is its own kind of victory.
And yet for all its cultural specificity, it is also simply a magnificent creature — one of the ocean's great architectural achievements, a being of extraordinary structural complexity and beauty that we encounter most often on a plate with a lemon wedge. Lobster asks you to look at it — really look — before you pick up the crackers.
Part of the Delicacies series, this painting sits in a tradition that runs from the great Dutch still life masters through to Andy Warhol's soup cans and Wayne Thiebaud's diner counters — the tradition that insists the objects of our daily pleasure and appetite are as worthy of serious artistic attention as any grand historical subject. More worthy, perhaps. Because we actually live inside them.
Painted in richly layered acrylics on a 36×48 inch canvas, Lobster arrives ready to hang — a bold, joyful, utterly confident presence that works equally beautifully in a beach house, a Brooklyn loft, a restaurant dining room, or anywhere that takes its pleasures seriously.
✦ Original, one-of-a-kind painting ✦ Acrylic on canvas ✦ 36 × 48 inches ✦ Created 2026 ✦ Part of the Delicacies series ✦ Ready to hang ✦ Free worldwide shipping
Claws up. Summer's here.
Acrylic on Canvas | 36×48 inches | 2026 | Delicacies Series
There is something almost regal about a lobster.
Claws raised, antennae proud, body arrayed in the full ceremonial splendour of that extraordinary vermillion — this is not a crustacean. This is a statement. Painted against a luminous, loosely worked background that fades from pale gold to soft green, the lobster commands the canvas the way a portrait subject commands a formal sitting — with complete, unhurried, magnificent self-possession.
Lobster is simultaneously the most New England and the most painterly thing imaginable. It carries the salt air of Cape Cod fish shacks, the paper bibs and drawn butter of a summer clam bake, the particular pleasure of cracking open something that requires effort and rewards it extravagantly. It is the taste of a New England summer distilled into paint — the long drive up the coast, the weathered dock, the cold beer, the pile of shells at the end of the meal that is its own kind of victory.
And yet for all its cultural specificity, it is also simply a magnificent creature — one of the ocean's great architectural achievements, a being of extraordinary structural complexity and beauty that we encounter most often on a plate with a lemon wedge. Lobster asks you to look at it — really look — before you pick up the crackers.
Part of the Delicacies series, this painting sits in a tradition that runs from the great Dutch still life masters through to Andy Warhol's soup cans and Wayne Thiebaud's diner counters — the tradition that insists the objects of our daily pleasure and appetite are as worthy of serious artistic attention as any grand historical subject. More worthy, perhaps. Because we actually live inside them.
Painted in richly layered acrylics on a 36×48 inch canvas, Lobster arrives ready to hang — a bold, joyful, utterly confident presence that works equally beautifully in a beach house, a Brooklyn loft, a restaurant dining room, or anywhere that takes its pleasures seriously.
✦ Original, one-of-a-kind painting ✦ Acrylic on canvas ✦ 36 × 48 inches ✦ Created 2026 ✦ Part of the Delicacies series ✦ Ready to hang ✦ Free worldwide shipping
Claws up. Summer's here.
