Presentiments

When Maine-based painter John Winship first heard Emily Dickinson's poem "Presentiments," he wanted to go back and give that title to every painting he'd ever completed. Winship's acrylic and oil paintings do seem to arise out of Dickinson's domestically grassy, shady vision of past moments that are somehow infused with present and future at once. Working from old black-and-white photographs from places like his grandmother's photo album, Winship fills canvases with color, darkness, and anonymity. Here, Winship's creative paintings and its interpretations are discussed.