NEW YORK—He finds inspiration just walking through a little grocery store in his neighborhood. Some lemons with stems and leaves still attached to them—as if just picked off of a tree—caught his interest, so much so that he decided to paint them. Those lucky lemons were destined more to nourish the soul than to serve as garnish.
A few days later, the leaves and the lemons shriveled. “You just have to figure out ways to deal with the fleeting nature of things,” Justin Wood said while looking at his still life arrangement at Grand Central Atelier, where he paints and teaches. Some fresh leaves were stapled to a board substituting, for reference.
Justin Wood paints at the Grand Central Atelier on Feb. 26, 2016. Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times
