Anthony J. Marolda

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My first painting, ever, was done sometime in the late 1950's when I was a teenager in Walpole High School. I remember seeing a Sunday Globe Magazine cover and I liked the sentiment of a peaceful place by a river. I knew a house in Walpole, where I was living at the time, that looked like it. It was the home of Joseph Welch, the famous lawyer, (Army-McCarthy Hearings in the mid ‘50’s) lived. I bought some water color paints, but had no idea how to use them. I just painted with them directly out of the tube without using water medium. So it was a very heavy pigment. The result is to the right.

I still like doing peaceful, pastoral scenes once in a while. Over the years, we've vactioned many times in Camden, Maine. There is a back road from Camden to Rockport Harbor. It passes through Aldemere Farm where they raise Belted Galloway cattle. Each time I saw them, I thought that I had to do a painting of these unusual looking animals. Above is a soft pastel of a lone Belted Galloway on a farm. For the background, I decided to use a barn that we saw on a trip to Vermont instead of the Maine landscape.