The Clouds Methought Would Open and Show Riches – Sunset, Tuesday, 23 April 2013

William Van Doren, THE CLOUDS METHOUGHT WOULD OPEN AND SHOW RICHES. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

R.I.P. Will Shakespeare.

Upon This Bank and Shoal of Time (Sunset, Saturday, 18 June 2011)

William Theodore Van Doren, UPON THIS BANK AND SHOAL OF TIME (Sunset from Staunton, Va.) Oil on watercolor block, 13 x 19.

Actually I was not so much upon a bank as I was on top of a parking garage looking WSW in Staunton, Va., during intermission of American Shakespeare Center’s terrific Macbeth at Blackfriars Playhouse. If you haven’t seen a show at Blackfriars, you’re missing a great experience.

Sunset, Friday, 27 November 2009

William Theodore Van Doren. Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

Went from here to downtown Staunton, Virginia – the most beautiful urban space in this region (followed by Lynchburg and Culpeper ... according to no less an authority than myself) – and the Blackfriars Playhouse to see the American Shakespeare Center performance of Henry IV, Part I. Then to Mockingbird – “Artisan Fare & Roots Music” – open only five weeks and a nice place to talk after the show. Not quite as many followers of Falstaff.