I have been working to integrate my new ideas, with the goal of figuring out how to have the one central image within the picture plane.
My reference material is limited to collections of photographs I took about 20 years ago. I have a wonderful collection of images and surfaces that I shot to use in my sculptures, so all the images evoke clear memories of time and place. That makes these images strangely meaningful and uniquely complex for me. Making them is almost like wandering in a dream, where the images make sense in that context, and are the ephemera my diverse daily life experiences. The landscape format and reference alludes to reality.
I have tried to have these paintings be a technical mix of simple and direct painting with areas of complex development. They have been fun to make as they are planned up to a certain point and then to bring to finish, I have had the challenge of making formal and/or intuitive decisions.
As is my usual way the most recent have become increasingly complex.
Why do I paint them instead of making collages (which of course I enjoy) - I love to paint. And I think painting is the way I own, and integrate the images on to the surfaces.
Here is the order most recent at the top of the stack scroll.
(they are 24"x24" on wood panel)
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| Cairn, 24"x 24" acrylic on plywood |
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| Bird Market and John Day Hills, 24"x 24" acrylic on plywood |
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| Screen, Home and Painted Hills, 24"x 24" acrylic on plywood | |
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| Colorado Window, 24"x 24" acrylic on plywood |
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| Rose Trellis, 24"x 24" acrylic on plywood | |
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| Timberline Window, 24"x 24" acrylic on plywood |
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| Red Cypress, 24"x 24" acrylic on plywood |
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| Water tower with 2 pipes, 24"x 24" acrylic on plywood |
These are 12" x12" mixed media studies on wood panels, they are fun as idea generators.
