A new studio at Sage Street Mill

In July 2026, I moved into a new studio at Sage Street Mill in North Bennington, Vermont. The historic brick mill sits beside Paran Creek and houses studios, galleries and spaces for arts and community programs. It is now where I’m making a new body of paintings.

This work marks a change in direction and a break from my earlier series. I’m still combining painting with digital drawing and archival inkjet printing on linen, but the paintings taking shape here are developing a different visual language. Broad painted marks and hard edges cross through layers of printed line and color.

The first color I painted in the mill was cobalt teal. Since then, the work has included Mill Painting #1 and Mill Painting #2, followed by experiments with spray enamel in Convergence and Passage. Those two smaller paintings combine acrylic, archival inkjet and spray enamel on linen. Encounter and Marcel followed, each measuring 32 × 24 inches.

Ebisu, at 36 × 64 inches, is the first large-scale painting I completed in the new space. Its title is my mother Kikuye’s maiden name. My maternal grandmother, Kimiye Ebisu, was a teacher and student of Shōdo, the Japanese art of calligraphy. The name brings that family history into this new work.

These are the first paintings from the mill. Together, they mark the beginning of something I’m still working out in the studio.