I am calling this painting Valley Bountiful. It’s a new 30″ by 30″ canvas that is a continuance of a recent group of work that focuses on the patterned fields and tree groupings that make up the foreground, all feeding to the central figure of the Red Tree.
I’m really enjoying this recent streak of work. There’s a sense of fullness, or completeness, in these pieces that really gratifies me. I see this in the density of the color, in the depth of the picture plane into which the scene pushes and in the way the fields comes together.
I may not be able to explain what I fully mean by the word fullness here. Maybe it feels as though there is a sense of self-containment in the piece, an autonomy that allows the painting to live fully on its own in its own self-described world. I have always described a piece as being successful if it takes on a life of its own, to have their own voice and vocabulary and existing in their own time and place. These pieces seem to fully embody this. They seem fully alive, dwelling completely in their own idealized world.
All that I can ask.
Redtree Times 