Stacks and stacks! Frontburner served as a part-time studio workshop and phantom gallery. The gallery was one of four other phantom galleries in Windsor to contribute to the life of the Town Green district. These galleries "kept the lights on," in spaces that were vacant, and held regular exhibits and receptions.

On April 1, 2012, I moved out of the space Frontburner occupied for the last 13 months. During that time, 17 visiting artists have shown, and I have been creating, showing and selling paintings , drawings and collage work produced in that space. It has been great to connect with the newly-formed art community in Windsor and with the art enthusiasts who visited Frontburner. Fortunately, I have a efficient home studio where I will be concentrating on new projects. You can keep in touch with my current art activities through my web site (www.bshelley.com), blog (bshelley.com/blog), and Facebook page (facebook.com/BillShelleyArt).

Here are the final underpainting layers for “Windsor Roof Line” and lastly, the finished painting.

Here are the fourth and fifth underpainting layers for Windsor Roof Line.

Photographer Drew Jackson, glass painter Julie Cole and I challenged ourselves to respond to the same subject matter – an interesting convergence of roof lines near the Town Green in Windsor. Below you can see a photo of the roof lines and then my first layer of color (seven more layers to come).