In various ways I've been using grids since 1984 (see pavement art). I thought of layering grids, and how overlapping works in the natural world. How light or liquid or even solid forms might set against each other. A cloud covers the sun, a stream trickles over stone, a path meanders between peaks.
"Three Sisters" was inspired by a day hike between three peaks. A walk through a changing landscape while the sunlight shifts and fades. I wanted to compress this experience into a single image that was a complete idea.
The painting "Wall of Early Morning Light" shimmers. The silver light of dawn forshadowing the suns first golden ray. Applied with fingertips the paint has a sensitive, probing touch.
In "Sparks" the last remnants of a casading firework drift earthward. The image seems to reverberate, like flickering smoke and cloud, from receeding and diminishing light.
The painting's shapes evolved into their stuttering configurations. Their stretched canvas frames intersect with each other, like building blocks, or floor tiles. |