Well, off on one of my drive-fests, first to Asheville then to Alexandria then home, all within 48 hours. Just the way I like it.
This is a painting that is going to the Haen Gallery in Asheville. Titled Explorer, it’s a 30″ by 40″ canvas that I’ve been very proud of as it sat waiting in the studio. It is a piece that, if I had to sum up in one painting what my work has been to this point, would fit the bill nicely. It has a real feeling of completeness, of being a fully mature and realized piece, as though it exists in only that moment without any thought or deference to the past or future.
I think that might be what I’m looking for in my work- a self-contained world in its own present time and place, separate from the world we know. It’s own sense of landscape, of light and color– all familiar yet apart. But welcoming.
I could go on wading in esoterica but I’ll spare you that. Let’s just say that it’s a piece that really hits for me.
Anyway, time to hit the road. If you’re in the Alexandria area tomorrow, Saturday, stop into the Principle Gallery for my gallery talk or just to say “Hi!”
Hope to see you there.
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