Wilderness Journal: Nootka rose
54"x60"
oil on canvas
Sept. 27-Nov. 8, Campbell-Ward-Twisp Glass
Confluence Gallery
I am a fine artist specializing primarily in oil and mixed media paintings. The work is a mixture of representational elements and abstract design. These paintings are part of a series called End Notes to Natural History, the Wilderness Journal Series.
As both a scientist and an artist I have found the study of the natural world an endless source of fascination, wonder, joy, and horror. I love its indifference to life. This indifference is perhaps why so few people are willing to observe the "real" world, and why they are so willing to let it go. Robert Pyle calls this the "extintion of experience" These paintings are my "journal of experience", and my "end notes" to that experience. |
These works are constructed on a canvas that first contained a painted landscape, over which was layered a representation of a journal page, upon which was painted a representational or abstracted element of nature. The work is meant to show the elaborate extravagance and overwhelming beauty of the natural world, but with a touch of menace as the beauty fades and the abundance is wasted. These paintings are a bold and loud call to shake the indifference from people, and to leave them with a touch of the natural history experiece. |
Wilderness Journal: Lewisia tweedyi
54" x 60"
oil on canvas
Wilderness Journal: Castilleja
54" x 48"
oil on paper
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