What is the face of a river? \u00a0Light dances and reflects its magic on water, as does stirred up mud make opaque what once was clear. \u00a0A river has an existence too big for one portrait. \u00a0These three paintings explore one experience of the river: Rapids.<\/p>\n
Contemporary life keeps many of us from having a close relationship with the natural environment, as time must be spent elsewhere. \u00a0It is the encounter of the river and not a literal imitation of it that inspires this series. \u00a0Experience is primary in both sensation and use of paint. \u00a0Brushstrokes express the water’s fluid movement and lead the eye through thick and thin, opaque and transparent oil paint, creating beauty and light. \u00a0These paintings pull viewers to where we enter, to the place of no turning back, until the motion takes us and we must ride it out as best we can. \u00a0Rocks seem to lose their gravity and visually float without leaving the ground. \u00a0Space becomes ambiguous. \u00a0The natural world is not neat and tidy with a principle focus for the viewer — many points cry out for your attention at the same time. \u00a0See light glisten off wet rocks. \u00a0Note dips and rises of the river bed as water races over and around stones. \u00a0See the force of turbulent water pool and froth, float and fall.<\/p>\n
Who has not felt the flow of life like a river sweeping up in its power, as we ride it out trying not be overcome and lost in the rapids of events beyond our control?<\/p>\n
I work in a series where all paintings are connected in concept to explore my experience of life, which I strive to share with the viewer.<\/p>\n
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