I call this recently finished piece Between Worlds. It’s a 12″ by 24″ canvas and contains several of the elements I often use in my work. The omnipresent red tree. The simple red roofed house without window or door. The patterned patchwork of the fields. The curling path leading into the landscape.
I like the feel of this piece. I find a great calmness and comfort in the colors of the sky even though it appears to be composed of chaos in the form of the short, choppy strokes used. The fields below have a greater formality and order, a different sort of calmness than the sky above. This is what brought the title to mind.
I see the orderliness of the fields and the the chaos of the sky as one might view the two side of the brain. The sky is the creative side; the fields the logical, more rational side. The sky is intuitive, emotional. The fields are based in empiricism, fact. The house denotes the security of residing in this orderly landscape, of living in a world of fact and logic.
The tree, however, lives in both worlds. It is rooted in the earth, the soil of logic yet grows toward the free-moving sky. Unlike the straight and stoic lines of the house, the tree is organic and reactive as it grows, always adjusting to support itself and growing towards that which nurtures.
It is between worlds.
Redtree Times 