Artist talk

The other day I had the opportunity to visit a local artist in his home studio. Kevin Martin has been doing woodworking for his whole life and rarely left the state of new hampshire. When I called him up to ask if he was busy to visit his shop he said "well lets see its gonna be raining a little... Im gonna be having the wood stove going all day." He lives a simple life. Building a couple wooden canoes ever year off of the same 4 molds that were donated to him from some world famous canoe maker in Massachusetts in the early 1900's and restoring other things on the side. His art is not making the front pages or causing people to boycott an exhibit but it is making him enough money to have his grand kids come up and visit every once and a while for the weekend. Sometimes its just nice to see a well built canoe that isn't covered in Marilyn Minroe neon faces.