Detail: WINTER BOUQUET -- CHRYSANTHEMUMS, ASTERS & DELPHINIUM 24 X 48 inches, Lascaux acrylic on linen mounted on panel December 2002
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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