Josie Merck, Path to the East

- Dimensions: 19” x 25” x  2” - Oil on canvas, framed- Tori Jones Studio is proud to present a collection of Block Island painter Josie Merck’s vibrant and expressive work. Watercolors, oil paintings, and collages in the artist's signature, imaginative style depict the island's distinctive and precarious ecology: its stone walls, rolling fields, trees, and bluffs. - Josie Merck was born in Canada. As a child, she lived in New Jersey, Mexico, and Brazil where she grew up with a love of art and nature, color and celebration. Nearly forty years ago, she fell in love with Block Island upon landfall after a rough ferry crossing in blustery October weather. The island's open, coastal landscape and its vernacular architecture had a powerful and immediate impact on her– and quickly became one of her most beloved subjects. Personal experiences in nature define her work; many of her pieces are painted atop the roof of her island home or pickup truck. - The founder of the Ocean View Foundation,