ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION
After 20 years of painting traditional landscapes, I felt a need to push my work into a more abstract approach. After much experimentation, what felt right to me was taking what I had learned from years of representational painting and transition that into imagery that is still recognizable but simplified graphically to its essential elements, somewhat like symbols or iconographic images. So it is not, in fact, non-objective abstraction in that it does retain a recognizable, objective reference. Maybe what I am doing is abstract representation. This allows me to explore the essential elements of painting without relying on skillful rendering. The paintings are less of a display of skill and more a display of the essence of these phenomena of Nature—getting more inside the subject. This is my best shot at explaining what I do in words. The closer truth is seeing the paintings in person
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Landscape Studies
These studies are oil paintings using cold wax medium from the Big Stone Series. It is difficult to capture the subtlety of the values and hues of these paintings. Reproducing them through photography and then computer monitor images looses a lot that is best seen “person-to-painting”.
Larger Abstract Landscape Paintings
These are oil paintings using cold wax medium from the Big Stone Series including Foggy Grove, Prairie Sky, Cloud Piece and Across the Lake. Again, it is difficult to capture the subtlety of the values and hues of these paintings in a reproduction.
Traditional Landscape Paintings
These are oil paintings on canvas and panels, ranging in size from small to large, with a section of Paintings on Paper. These are the last of my traditional landscape paintings that will be available and are priced at 50% off retail.