Sometimes I start to paint or
make a sculpture without knowing what it’s about. And I often think that it’s
my hands which know and make without letting my conscious mind in on the secret
until much, much later in the process. That has been the case with this series
of paintings.
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Bird's Eye View
17” h x 21” w, framed
oil on canvas
NFS
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What I do know is that I have
always been intrigued by the patterns of crop circles and farm fields when
flying over the mid-section of the country on my way home from my sister’s
house in Colorado. Especially in western Kansas, the landscape is geometric: full
of circles, squares, stripes. As my trips are nearly always around the
holidays, the colors are usually a mix of snowy pastels.
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Avian Geometry II
17” h x 21” w, framed
oil on canvas
$300
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There is something that makes
my heart beat faster to see the interaction of the natural and the man-made,
circular geometries interacting with miles of wiggling rivers or untamable
terrain. Pac-man half-circles eating up shrubbery-looking (from miles above)
forested mountains.
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Camouflaged Paradox
17” h x 21” w, framed
oil on canvas
$300
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These landscapes, along
with my birds, have become metaphors for an interior landscape representing the tensions inherent in all relationships. The interactions of people unconscious of
their effects on others. The push-pull. The give and take. Poking and pestering. Non-stop
wood-peckering.
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Pileated
17” h x 21”
w, framed
oil on canvas
sold |
The paintings lead. I follow.
