A show of watercolors and drawings by Alexander Purves will be held at the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City from October 1 through October 26, 2024.  All were made during the last three years in northwestern Connecticut, where Purves maintains a studio.  The  restrictions of the recent years have encouraged us to look closely at the natural world that immediately surrounds us, discovering  beauty in tangled vines and random branches.   This untidy landscape has been the consistent focus of Purves’s work for many years.  The subjects of the current pictures are the trees seen from his studio and the tangles of vines and  brambles that invade the landscape immediately outsid