These original works are currently available at the following locations. Please contact the gallery/exhibitor directly to inquire about purchasing.
Bryan Memorial Gallery, 180 Main Street, Jeffersonville, VT, (802) 644-5100, info@bryangallery.org
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Exit 11
20 X 20 original acrylic painting on canvas
The view of Camel’s Hump from the off ramp of Exit 11 on I-89 is pretty breath-taking. Maybe I’m biased in thinking it’s the prettiest exit on the interstate, in part because that view also means I’m almost home.
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Spruce Roots
24 X 35 original acrylic painting on canvas
I encountered this spruce clinging to a leaf-covered ledge with all its rooty might earlier this fall along the Long Trail in the vicinity of the App Gap. The warmth of the afternoon sun was glowing through the trees, and I feel a little tread of connection back to that moment through the memory of that day and through painting it.
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Bushwacking with the Ancients
16 X 20 original acrylic painting on gallery wrapped canvas painted continuously around the edges
Just because you don’t know where you are doesn’t necessarily mean you’re lost. On this particular day the trail was merely a suggestion, and while we weren’t exactly on it, we knew it was nearby. A happy byproduct of the ensuing bushwhack was encountering a grove of ancient yellow birch with their long twisted limbs filling the canopy. Many artists prefer not to paint Vermont in the summer because of the abundance of green - but personally I think it’s jungle-like quality is quite lovely.
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Long Blue Shadows
20 X 20 original acrylic painting on gallery wrapped canvas, painted around edges
This is my favorite riffle on the Mil Brook down behind my home in Jericho, VT. Some ancient hemlocks hang over the bank and some water-sculpted boulders create a quiet haven for sitting and taking in the low angle winter sun.
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Up to Ethan
16 X 20 original acrylic painting on gallery-wrapped canvas.
Near the start of a longer hike earlier this fall, long shadows cast by a rising sun fell across the Long Trail as we approached Mt. Ethan Allen. Abundant moss, fragrant balsam, and a sparse understory gave the feel of an enchanted forest - so strongly that I can practically smell it and feel it as I describe it to you now.
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Kettle Pond Sunrise
12 X 12 original acrylic painting on canvas
The sun rises over Owl’s Head Mountain and Kettle Pond in Groton, VT on a midsummer day.
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Slopes of Mansfield
12 X 12 original acrylic painting on canvas
Coming down Maple Ridge on Mt. Mansfield on a beautiful spring day.
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Shroom with a View
11 X 14 original acrylic painting on a gallery wrapped canvas - painted continuously around the edges
This little mushroom was sitting on the edge of the Long Trail, and it’s perfect red cap drew my attention as I was hiking past. As I crouched down to take its photo, I remarked on what a nice view it had, sitting along a section of trail corridor that opened out onto a vista over the expanse of the green mountains. What a lucky little mushroom.
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Eden Stream
11 X 14 original acrylic painting on canvas
I encountered this little cascade flowing off the rocks in Eden in the vicinity of Devil’s Gulch on a gorgeous fall day.
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Nebraska Notch Beaver Pond
11 X 14 original acrylic painting on canvas
When hiking Nebraska Notch from the Stevensville side, we sometimes opt to bushwhack a bit along the edge of the what is sometimes a pond and sometimes a meadow depending on the level of beaver activity. On this particular late summer day, there were a few grumbles from the peanut gallery about our bare legs getting scratched by the sedges, but for me the expansive view of the pond and notch was worth it, and the lingering stings a physical reminder of being in that peaceful place with people I love.
ArtHound Gallery, 21 Essex Way, Essex, Vermont, 802-662-4808 John@arthoundgalleryvt.com
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At the Altar
16X20, acrylic on canvas, $600
This distinct rock formation on the summit of Camel’s Hump has an altar-like quality to me. It seems a place for sacred rituals, a lightning rod to the heavens, a place where metaphysical messages are sent and received.
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Stowe Pinnacle View
16 X 20, acrylic painting on canvas, $600
“Pinnacle View” features the view of Camel’s Hump and the Waterbury Reservoir from atop Stowe Pinnacle in the Worcester Range. This mid-November scene, what some refer to as “stick season”, challenges the notion that this time of year is dull and brown. This is my favorite season to hike – the tourist traffic has died down and the trees hum a little as they prepare for the short winter days.
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Addison
15X30, acrylic on canvas, $385
Floodplains are flat by design. When floodwaters flow out on to land adjacent to a river or lake, the energy of the water is dissipated, allowing fine sediments to settle out and fill-in the topography, over time creating a flat surface. No better place to observe this on a grand scale than from the top of Snake Mountain, looking out over Addison, VT. From there you can see the ancient floodplain and lake bottom of the Champlain Sea, formed thousands of years ago under very different geologic conditions. The patchwork quilt of agricultural fields is draped over the surface of what the historic ocean left behind – a reminder that the mark of mankind runs skindeep and sums up to a mere blip in time in the scope of our planet’s existence.
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Honey Hollow
11X14, acrylic on canvas, $350
Honey Hollow in Bolton, VT is a place of great beauty – rock, moss, mushrooms, moisture, rushing water – and the magical flat glow of light under the forest canopy. The bedrock is tumbled smooth from thousands of years of scour. As the water rushes past the process continues in real time. And yet from my narrow window of time it seems unchanged. A stability that makes me feel anchored to a time beyond my own lifespan – moments that occurred before my existence and moments that will unfold long after I am gone. Because I bore witness, I have a place in the story.
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Gnarly Beech
18 X 24, acrylic on canvas, $750
This gnarly beech tree (and by gnarly I mean “with gnarls”, not “Duuude!” grows at its elevation limit on Mt. Mansfield in Underhill, VT. There’s a whole grove of these with winding trunks and curving branches that tell the story of the harsh conditions they exist within.
Bryan Gallery, 64 Main Street, Stowe, VT, (802) 760-6474, info@bryangallery.org
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Nancy Hanks Vista
24X36, acrylic on canvas, $1,500
This painting is the view of Sugarbush and beyond from atop Nancy Hanks Peak in Lincoln/Warren, VT.
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Winter Beech
20 X 24, acrylic painting on canvas, $865
A young beech tree’s winter-held leaves catch the glow of the winter sun.
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Northbound on the Long Trail
24 X 30, acrylic on canvas, $1,100
The view from Bolton Mountain looking north is such a unique perspective on Mt. Mansfield’s forehead and chin (and Mt. Mayo in between). My son made up a story about how Mt. Mayo got its name, which I bet is a lot more interesting then how it actually got that name, but it involves a lot of condiments and estrangement , so probably better left untold… This painting has special meaning for me as the view is from an epic hiking excursion with my eldest son in the summer of 2024 - for me it holds the spirit of adventure and closeness with my teenager I felt in that moment.
At the Affordable Art Fair in New York City, March 18-22, 2026, Represented by the Bryan Gallery, info@bryangallery.org
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Glow
24 X 36 original acrylic painting on canvas, $1650
I encountered this little guy amidst the mossy tree roots on a hike on Mt. Mansfield a while back and was struck by the way the sunlight lit it up like a candle. I painted it macro 24X36 to suggest that sometimes the tiniest among us can have outsized presence.
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Forest Sundown
24 X 36 original acrylic painting on canvas, $1650
The sun glows up the forest as it sets on a Vermont summer evening.
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Green River Sunrise
24 X 30 original acrylic painting on canvas, $1400
The sun breaks through some storm clouds as it rises over Green River Reservoir in Morrisville, VT.
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Mill Brook on Mobbs
20 X 24 original acrylic painting on gallery wrapped canvas, $960
A spring-time view of Mill Brook on the Mobb’s Property - snow and ice still clinging to the banks and the flow raging with meltwater. The buds on the trees plumping into color and getting ready to explode.
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Golden
16 X 20 original acrylic painting on canvas, $670
Golden light radiates through the fall foliage in Eden, VT.
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Winter Beech
16 X 20 original acrylic painting on canvas, $670
A young beech tree sprouts from a downed log in an old forest.
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Snow on Hunger
14 X 14 original acrylic painting on canvas, $540
This is a view of the spine of the Green Mountains from Mt. Hunger in Waterbury, VT featuring the first snow of the season. The peak of the mountain is shrouded in snow while the valleys are still bare in mid-November stick season.
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Frost Trail Tunnel
11 X 14 original acrylic painting on canvas, $420
When I’m on one of these well-worn trails on the mountain that are thick with scrubby vegetation on all sides except under my feet, I think about the first person to cut the trail and how difficult it must have been to push through. I love this shady section of the Frost Trail that traverses a contour line through the trees and then pops out into the light.
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East Shore, Gloucester
11 X 14 original acrylic painting on canvas, $420
This is the eastern shore of Gloucester, Massachusetts near where my grandparents lived. The pebbly beach and seaweed covered rocks conger a distinct memory for me, and just thinking about it I can smell the salty air.
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Good Bones
8 X 10 original acrylic painting on canvas, $250
The view from Maple Ridge on Mt. Mansfield looking south down the spine of the Green Mountains. Always a colorful and comforting sight.
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River Sunrise
8 X 10 original acrylic painting on canvas, $250
To me, a sunrise is symbolic of a new beginning - a fresh start, a crack of light in the dark. And also a comfort - to know we have that promise every day - after every night, the sun will rise.
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Warm Winter
8 X 8 original acrylic painting on canvas, $215
I’m realizing I have a preference for painting rivers facing upstream, which might be rooted in my river ecology/biology background. You see, in the field of river ecology, you refer to the right and left banks of the river facing upstream, which I’ve always assumed is because if you’re trying to understand the ecological health of a point in the system, you have to understand everything the river experienced up until that point as it flowed downstream. When I started working in the field of fluvial geomorphology, which is rooted more in physical processes, I was surprised to learn that right and left banks of a river are determined facing downstream. But this makes sense if you’re focusing on the power of the flow and the energy moving downstream that dictates the physical condition of the river. While I have an appreciation for both fields of study, I guess my heart is in the biology; so enjoy this upstream view of Mill Brook in Jericho, VT.
