Southern Maryland Arts & Culture
Frank Comstock
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Fascinated with light and color, Frank Comstock specializes in floral and nature photography, as well as architectural details, textures, and windows.
Colors and hues, light playing on texture, and light highlighting color are all hallmarks of Frank’s work. He is particularly interested in stained glass windows and the reflections and distortions found in windows in older buildings. Frank’s work has been exhibited in one-person shows at the Charles County Commissioners’ Gallery, the Clark Senior Center in La Plata, and the United Way Gallery in La Plata. Frank has had both his photography and his stained glass work exhibited at the Mattawoman Creek Art Center, where one of his photographs garnered an honorable mention in a juried show. |
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Frank’s writing involves serenity, peace, community, and small-town values. He looks for the positive in life rather than the negatives and violence so prevalent in the media today. His writing has been described by reviewers as “plain-spoken” and “honest”. Leaving traditional literary rules behind, Frank writes from his heart, always trying to portray a world where people care more for others in their community and where characters find hope in the smallest of things.
Although born into a typical New England family with more than three hundred and fifty years of growth (and a bit of rot – he admits to at least one witch in the Massachusetts witch trials in the 1600s) on the family tree, Frank spent most of his youth in South Carolina learning and observing Southern ways of the 1950s and 1960s. Frank blends his Southern and Yankee experiences in a writing style that is direct and touching at the same time. |
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Frank has published Charlie’s Gift and When Past and Future Meet through Quaker Hill Press. His short stories have been published in Connections and in Types and Shadows. Upcoming projects include two novels in progress and a collection of short stories.