Rick Mills is again welcoming visitors to his studio/house designed by architect Walter Aurell, who will be here Friday and Saturday of the tour.

Rick’s work includes prints, paintings and pastels of NYC, New England, Western and Catskills landscapes. 50 years of restless investigations into papermaking, painting as observation, as abstraction; environmental activism; public art; 34 years teaching printmaking - have at times resulted in head spinning reversals, even for him. Call it all “post modern”?

Recent work from his “Meadow” solo exhibit record changes in the shape and composition of the property’s two acre meadow and his diverse responses to them. Since moving to Bovina sixteen years ago he has recognized the importance of maintaining and managing the biodiverse meadow, which is apparently, now hosting a Bobcat. This follows fourteen years of working as an ecoartist in the damaged landscapes of the northern New Jersey Meadowlands.

The stylistic diversity of these paintings range from painterly realism to near abstraction as he seeks out the specific and the essence of this landscape, as well as homages to artists past and present.