Ed Stitt

Ed Stitt's agenda has consistently been to select and present for our delectation the moments of glory and beauty which reside in the mundane. Elements such as architectural detailing, intricate ironwork, or the play of light across a surface are carefully rendered by Stitt with vibrant color and constructed brushwork, building to moments of architectural epiphany.

Stitt uses light and color to transform commonplace urban environments. He paints alleys and buildings near his studio, in Boston’s Fenway Studios building. The paintings glory in a celebration of architectural detail and the overlapping decline and renewal of city surfaces. In addition to his on-site painting of urban landscapes, Stitt also works in the countryside, where towering trees and open fields make for compositions quite unlike his tight city spaces. I n these paintings we see the painter Stitt might be if he weren’t so in love with Boston’s byways.

His work is included in numerous corporate and private collections and has been shown in exhibitions reviewing realist and landscape painting at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and at the Boston Athenaeum.

“My work has always been about light and life, contrasts, beauty, color, and intensity. I felt urban landscapes lent themselves to strong drawing and contrasts, bright colors, and juxtapositions of the natural world with the man-made. Whether portraits, still-lifes, or landscapes, I try to paint the “Golden Moment,” when the subject has a timeless beauty, or is looking its best possible. More recently, I’ve come to the realization that I’m no longer painting just what I see, but my take or interpretation of what I see; that is, what I likes about what I see. What occurs then is a kind of transfiguration of the normal into something greater.”
- Ed Stitt