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blue trees #8

Blue Trees #8 | 11 x 22 inches | oil on wood panel | 2008 | more paintings >>

The Blue Trees series are spontaneous paintings based on natural forms. I play with color and composition to explore and examine the limitless variety of space found in nature. What I find most interesting about these paintings is the medium of oil paint on a hard surface. There is such great satisfaction in the way paint oozes between brush bristles. It reminds me of how satisfying it is to walk barefoot in wet mud as it squishes between toes. These paintings are a visceral, tangible, and intimate connection to material, a marriage of matter and spirit.

why i paint

“Once something is sketched, it belongs to me and I lovingly arrange it on my painting surface where it is reborn.”

I create paintings about emotional space, shape, color and pattern. With a painterly style, I carefully build up impasto layers, using wet into wet oil paint, and allowing shards of underpainting to show through. Formally, the pieces are about composition, color harmonies, shape, and texture, yet each piece reveals a sensory connection to the landscape around me, and a dynamic interplay between conscious and subconscious thought.