Saturday 11 August 2012

The Landscape

A series of recent paintings (see Recent Paintings) that were exercises in pure painting and an attempt to free myself from Newfoundland architectural iconography are now looking like they emerged directly from the landscape that surrounds me in Port Rexton, NL. I have never considered myself a landscape painter but the landscape is what holds my attention in Newfoundland and so I think it is only natural that it would influence the work I have been doing in a subtle and unconscious way.

Here are a few photographic examples that can be juxtaposed with the paintings as a way of measuring the impact of the representational on the purely abstract.







Some Recent Work in Port Rexton, NL