Artist’s Statement
The paintings that I have included in this abstract landscape series attempt to address three principal issues that ultimately have shaped the final canvas and paint products: Those issues are:
- The enhancement of the curved geometry of perspective space applied to relative short representational distances,
- The representation of broad areas of landscape as color fields, with intrinsic components of Hue, Saturation and Value
- The planned interaction of the various color fields of the overall paintings.
The above areas of inquiry have been the focus of much of my mature work. As always, these artist’s inquiries are the subtext for the parallel aesthetic concern for the design of the image. The layout of the design elements, the color palette employed, and the quality of the linear components of the painting were all of great concern for each painting. I have attempted to minimize extraneous components that do not add to the graphic design, or address the color problems being addressed in the image. In my art I have attempted to identify a set of near minimums for image components that can still provide an engaging color experience, an abstracted, but dimensional, landscape reference, and of course, an emotional experience.
My image exploration methods for this series have been both systematic and intuitive. At times stepwise changes in hue, saturation and value and the nature of the drawn design are quite planned. At other times the direction that the painting takes is much more intuitive and impulsive, to the extent that minimalist hard edge painting can be impulsive.
It is my hope that I have made observable my discoveries in the above areas of inquiry, and equally importantly, that I have provided an interesting abstract art experience for the viewer.
