My View of Life on the Dock
Roof work underway last fall and exterior reno in progress now on the stately Hopper-esque Second Empire home with a tower on the corner of Prospect and Elm in Gloucester, Ma. (83 Prospect Street)
Here’s how it looked in 2012, 2020, 2024 (Dec. roofing), 2025 (March)
Thanks to the Holiday Delights Youth Acting Program at Gloucester Stage, I had the lucky chance to spend some time with artist Carol Kriekis. I thought her home and studio were a perfect reflection of her warmth and style, elegant and layered like an Aesthetic Movement interior. Kriekis works in different media, mostly grounded in representation. I saw series inspired by nature and renderings of flowers.
Recently she’s transformed her classic ‘Glosta’ and other Gloucester designs into oval stickers, each with some hand flourish. The potential for art everywhere around us — stickers, hand painted– that had me thinking about aestheticism, too. 
Photograph below shows some new branding design by Carol. There’s something coming this spring for Caffe Sicilia…No reveals, yet.
Good Morning Gloucester 