Date and Time for this Past Event
- Fri, Jun 7, 2024 - Sun, Jul 28, 2024
Location
City Market Artist Collective
300 Blake St
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The subjects of my first serious attempts at painting were straightforward representations of trees in landscape. After primarily painting the figure for many years, I returned to that original subject matter, focusing on individual trees without any landscape context, and involving the tree as a symbol of the essence of nature, growth, randomness, and order.
With my current work that I call TREESCAPES, the focus has narrowed further to small sections of limbs as frameworks upon which I build abstract compositions using colors associated with different seasons and times of day. The lines and shapes of these compositions rendered in oil stick, paint, and sometimes collage, remind me of a large stain glass window with highly abstracted imagery in the church in which I grew up. This aspect, in a way, enhances the symbolic sense of God in Nature
