Untitled
WINTER BOUQUET -- CHRYSANTHEMUMS, ASTERS & DELPHINIUM
24 X 48 inches, Lascaux acrylic on linen mounted on panel
My floral paintings are always painted from fresh flowers -- either plein
air in the garden or arranged in my studio. I love flowers and the
possibilities they offer the artist for juxtaposition of any range of spectral
hues. My paintings of flowers usually start with more subdued tonal
layers getting the "drawing" established then as I finish I create interlocking
abstract shapes of thickly applied pigments. Up-close these paintings
are Abstract Expressionism, they are primarily an arrangement of different
pigments on a flat surface. The brushmarks and spectral hues exert themselves
and create a tension with the image they suggest. This tension is central
to my work and symbolic of the tension of the human existence: spiritual
vs physical.
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