Sep 26, 2019 | Down East Maine, Poetry and Prose
Today Jill and I saw a dear friend in Cherryfield as per my poem below. Our friend was a major antique dealer who, like me, was in love with Kennebunkport the same time I was way, way back in time. He spent much time in France importing European antiques to the U.S....
Sep 17, 2019 | Poetry and Prose
“In My house are many mansions….” I stand between the house and the apple trees at midnight. A full moon makes exits and entrances on night’s stage– As Victorian night scapes romanticize in paint and mother of pearl Surreal moving locks of dark portent and...
May 1, 2016 | Art Teachings, Poetry and Prose
When I was exhibiting in Paris, and writing as many poems as I painted pictures, I wrote the following: “Images come First” (a poem by Peter Stilton) Images come first. Language leaves us with a thirst Images live in juxtaposition Language speaks with...
Jan 21, 2016 | Art Teachings, Musical Immersion, Poetry and Prose
I was searching for a way to convey an illumination that I have had in the last few months. Regardless of the illusion that time is a reality and that our progress in general is linear, we are who we are, always and forever. I’m not sure I can visualize what I...
Jun 12, 2015 | About Peter Stilton, Peter's Musings, Poetry and Prose
A few days ago, I was searching for a particular poem to include in a blog, and one out of several hundred poems in the folder cried out to me: “pick me, I need to be read!” So I am going to publish that poem after a short preface. The “Farm”...
Jun 8, 2015 | About Peter Stilton, Art Teachings, Peter's Musings, Poetry and Prose
For the third week now we are up in the 90’s in the day, often with storms in the afternoon or evening. If you take a nap, waiting for the rain, it feels like this– “Summer Diptych” ( a poem by Peter Stilton) The lazy lassitude Of dew drenched...
Apr 23, 2015 | Art Teachings, Down East Maine, Musical Immersion, Poetry and Prose
Now that I am working on various aspects of art, including faux painting for residential projects, I have to explain why some of my abstract paintings have a deep feeling behind them. In this instance, I go to my mental library, which includes music, travel, and...
Apr 20, 2015 | Peter's Musings, Poetry and Prose
In the last post, with the painting, I realized that an important part of the story was missing. That is the poem I wrote on that cold frosty night in Florida, when the garden was draped in white sheets, to protect the flowers and more delicate topiary from the...
Apr 1, 2015 | About Peter Stilton, Peter's Musings, Poetry and Prose
One of our dearest collectors, who bought a number of paintings from me each year–almost always selecting MY favorite works–wanted us to accompany her on a trip to Paris. However, we were involved in a lawsuit against the gallery there by the French...
