Jeremiah Eck is the senior partner of EckMacNeely Architects inc. a Boston based firm specializing in residential and private school work. The firm has won numerous local and national awards and been published in over 300 books, magazines, and newspapers. Jeremiah is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, College of Fellows, a former Lecturer in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a landscape painter, and author of The Distinctive Home: A Vision of Timeless Design and The Face of Home: A New Way to Look at the Outside of Your House by Taunton Press (2003 & 2006). His third book, House in the Landscape: Siting Your Home Naturally by Princeton Architectural Press will be published in early 2011.

To paint is to pray, or pingere est orare to recast the Benedictine motto laborare est orare. In this commercially driven and information crazed world a few hours en plein air, at least once a week, reminds me of what is really important: our common humanity.

I also paint as a pause from the busy world of architecture, but I have learned that painting sharpens my dulled intuitions and actually refreshes my practice. Like architecture, painting has structure in the form of composition, and space and light in the form of value and color. Without composition, a painting will soon fall apart, and without space and light, it will have no real interest to hold us. In the end, I hope to capture the true spirit of a place.

We must be quite aware of the obvious fact that art never improves but the material of art is never quite the same.

T.S. Eliot

Artin           Beebe           Eck           Harby          Purves          Yudell