Paintings (A recycling of place) As a California native, I grew up outdoors, inherently drawn to nature.As I watch the environment crumble, I feel the need to depict a world that honors nature’s beauty, and provides hope and a momentary escape from a chaotic ever-changing world — for me, the artist, as well as for the viewer. Paint is the medium that I first fell in love with and is a constant in my work. I strive to bring some of the sensual beauty of nature to the surface of the canvas with the rich colors and layered textures that oil paint allows. My current series of oil paintings, is the marriage of the traditional landscape narrative expressing the beauty, power, and vulnerability within nature, and an imaginative memory inducing subject. This new approach to the subject, which places imagination over a highly rendered style, also becomes my challenge—painting invented landscape spaces that evoke reverie. Before paint touches canvas, the process involves compiling all forms of imagery digitally in Photoshop to create a motif that interests me. This part of the process is incredibly valuable as it frees my imagination and holds no boundaries or canvas edges. The collages become my new subjects, existing somewhere between the familiar and the unpredictable, and I’m tasked to create a credible space that elicits my relationship with nature. As the painting unfolds, I stray from the original sketch and discover a new feeling of intimacy with the painting. The final landscapes are reprieves of escape, rather than the somewhere that was invented from disparate images.
Paintings (A recycling of place) As a California native, I grew up outdoors, inherently drawn to nature.As I watch the environment crumble, I feel the need to depict a world that honors nature’s beauty, and provides hope and a momentary escape from a chaotic ever-changing world — for me, the artist, as well as for the viewer. Paint is the medium that I first fell in love with and is a constant in my work. I strive to bring some of the sensual beauty of nature to the surface of the canvas with the rich colors and layered textures that oil paint allows. My current series of oil paintings, is the marriage of the traditional landscape narrative expressing the beauty, power, and vulnerability within nature, and an imaginative memory inducing subject. This new approach to the subject, which places imagination over a highly rendered style, also becomes my challenge—painting invented landscape spaces that evoke reverie. Before paint touches canvas, the process involves compiling all forms of imagery digitally in Photoshop to create a motif that interests me. This part of the process is incredibly valuable as it frees my imagination and holds no boundaries or canvas edges. The collages become my new subjects, existing somewhere between the familiar and the unpredictable, and I’m tasked to create a credible space that elicits my relationship with nature. As the painting unfolds, I stray from the original sketch and discover a new feeling of intimacy with the painting. The final landscapes are reprieves of escape, rather than the somewhere that was invented from disparate images.
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