Remembering Rollin Pickford at the Carmel Art Association: Opening Tonight - June 4, 2011
by Gregg Chadwick Rollin Pickford Spring Crescendo 22"x30" watercolor on paper Courtesy Melissa Pickford "All of those paintings I did, every one of them had something wrong with it. I guess that's why I kept painting." -Rollin Pickford Tonight the Carmel Art Association Gallery is hosting an exhibition of the watercolors of Rollin Pickford. Pickford's paintings make use of myriad techniques to approximate the play of light on land, sea, and sky. For eighty years Pickford limned the California scene as rolling hills and stands of trees vanished beneath strip malls and subdivisions. In Pickford's paintings, one can feel the sweep of an Asian brush across wet paper as pools of color shift and coalesce into light and atmosphere. The works seem to hang in a state of flux - their beauty poignantly balanced between a fixed moment and the passage of time. Rollin Pickford died in 2010 at 98. This rich exhibition was curated in his memory by his d...