Aspiring writers are told "Write what you know." I was a writer, so I paint what I know. I paint what I grew up with and love: farms and fields, ponds and streams, shorelines and salt marshes near Narragansett Bay and later the rural countryside of upstate New York--and some beautiful tucked-away places I have found in Provence, Burgundy, and elsewhere. It's my way of sharing and celebrating special places I have discovered, large and small, and mostly off the beaten path. If you see a painting you think you'd like to hang on a wall or give to a loved one or friend, paintings can be ordered via email (to arknightpainter@gmail.com) or found at D. Chatowsky Gallery on Block Island (just up the street a bit from the Galilee ferry), at the Cooperstown Art Association shop and galleries almost directly across the street from the Baseball Hall of Fame, in summer at the Smithy Gallery on Pioneer Street in Cooperstown, and from time to time at shows at the Spencertown (NY) Ac...