Time Being
Acrylic on Canvas
36” x 48”
2017
$1950
Time Being explores memories of landscapes traveled by foot. Emerging and dissolving images create a surrealistic landscape of shifting space and time. Heightened colors, gestural textures, and twisting space create vignettes of impossibility grounded in familiarity. Memories are imagined into a singular space that merges past travels with future wanderings. The painting describes existence within a moment of time.
Time Being (detail)
Quell
Acrylic on Canvas
48” x 60”
2018
$2400
Quell (detail)
Inertia
Acrylic on Linen
16"w X 16"h
2017
Fertile Window
Acrylic on Canvas
24” x 48”
2017
$1100
Fertile Window (detail)
Fractured
Acrylic on Canvas
30” x 24”
2018
$535
Fractured (detail)
Forest Floor
Acrylic on Canvas
48” x 48”
2017
$1800
Time Patterns
Acrylic on Canvas
12” x 12”
2018
$235
Ardent Arbor
Acrylic on Canvas
24” x 36”
2017
$535
...and Repeat
Acrylic on Panel
10” x 10”
$235
2018
Tied Down (not for long)
Acrylic on Canvas
12” x 12”
2018
$235
Lake Moon
Acrylic on Canvas
12” x 12”
2018
Private Collection
Genesis
Acrylic on Panel
10” x 10”
2017
$235
Cloud #9
Acrylic on Canvas
12” x 12”
2018
$235
Beneath the Surface
Acrylic Painting on Canvas
48"w x 48"h x 2.5"d
2015
In a dreamlike landscape ideas are left behind. Time washes over their brightness as they become encapsulated between layers of lived reality. Thin threads hold tightly to once vivid passions that are tugged ever so carefully back to the surface. Should the thread break, they become the past upon which the future is nourished.
Beneath the Surface (Detail)
Detail showing the layered gestural paint application of the strings pulling at memories layered beneath history.
Current Artwork
My surrealistic landscape paintings explore the Zen Buddhist concept of a "time being". The works combine simultaneous moments of past and future into a multidimensional image that is viewed as present. Spaces shift, twist, and disintegrate into gestural marks to create intimate places suspended in time. The paintings evoke familiar landscape elements placed within impossible spatial dynamics where structural forms disappear into passages that emerge, dissolve, and transform. A naturalistic color palette is invigorated with unexpected interruptions of fiery organic grids, floating pastel clouds, and atmospheric passages of glowing color to enhance the paintings' ambiguous sense of place and time. The eye flicks across energy laden textures and meditates on expanses of quiet chromatic grays that gently shift hue.
The ideas for the paintings begin with experiencing and documenting the landscape. Writings, photographs, and memories are intuitively dissected, rearranged, and integrated into compositions. Through the process of painting, colors, textures, and forms transform and evolve. The final paintings seek to create intimate and dynamic relationships that visually and emotionally both ground and transport the viewer.
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