Although representational landscape painting has dominated my artistic direction since the 70s, observing natural water surfaces and ice formations at extreme close range through the camera's lens has resulted in a body of photographs and paintings in which I capture nebulously luminous, microcosmic worlds of pure abstraction.
This abstract work is a direct result of a process of visual research that I engage in to create my representational landscape and flower paintings. Even though the paintings that result from this process are completely non-objective, I see them as related to my representational work, and some of my abstract paintings retain a landscape feeling generated by the architectonic placement of horizontal and vertical elements. In this abstract work I enjoy temporary freedom from the visual demands of realism, and am free to work with form, color, luminosity and gravity independent of the concerns that apply to more representational visions.
This abstract work is a direct result of a process of visual research that I engage in to create my representational landscape and flower paintings. Even though the paintings that result from this process are completely non-objective, I see them as related to my representational work, and some of my abstract paintings retain a landscape feeling generated by the architectonic placement of horizontal and vertical elements. In this abstract work I enjoy temporary freedom from the visual demands of realism, and am free to work with form, color, luminosity and gravity independent of the concerns that apply to more representational visions.