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Statement: January 2006 I have always loved to see new landscapes. When I was a child on family vacations, I loved the long days of driving. I watched intently for every changing nuance in the passing terraine. My family travelled mostly in the Southwest then. Later we travelled in Europe and the near East. The adobes and deserts of New Mexico, Texas red earth, yellow aspens of Colorado, the mountains and fjords of Norway, the cathedrals and castles and towns of France and Italy have all fed my imagination. Currently
I am painting en pleine air in Potawatomie County -- west of Topeka,
Kansas -- in a hilly area of untouched prairie. It is more broken
up than the Flint Hills a little farther west. One of my fascinations
with the prairie is that it has a reflective quality that gives
it something of the changeability of the sea or lakes. The grasses
have a shine that reflects the light and sometimes makes a hillside
glow. In the 3 hours or so of afternoon and evening light in winter
the light is constantly changing. Different grasses have different
colors; some are redder close to the ground and carry a gold froth
of seed heads higher. Can I paint fast enough to capture the light
of a moment? |
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Work inspired by my favorite places: Time and Space — Lysefjord In a country of amazingly beautiful landscapes, this is one of the most spectacular. It is the scene of a battle in which the Norwegians won a victory against the Nazis invasion. From
the Crest, The Manzanos,
and Candelaria and the Crest
are of places I visited often on family vacations in New Mexico. Cathedral Barn - Last of Its Kind shows a little of a beautiful old barn built by the Jesuit Missionaries of St. Marys in the shape of a cross with two silos flanking the main entrance as bell towers do in the great Gothic Cathedrals of Europe. It's about a mile from my house as the crow flies. Hill Bank in Fall and Along the Oregon Trail were both painted a little west of St. Marys near Oregon Trail Park. Green Summer Konza was painted in July of 2004 -- a year we had plenty of rain through the early part of the summer. It is a view of the Konza Tallgrass Prairie Research Project near Manhattan, Kansas. Aubert's Place and Aubert's Shed and Old Shed are views from near my home. |
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