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| At the Pond's Edge, Emerging Spring Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 Private collection Exhibited: Sorelle Gallery, New Canaan, CT |
I'm drawn to the intersections of sky, land and water and particularly how the trees come into contact with each of those elements. An amazing amount of hours that went into the making of this one. There is a great deal of texture as a result of successive ideas, starts and stops appearing as subsequent layers upon layers. This oil first had an incarnation as an autumn scene but I became enamored with the blues and slowly brought them to prominence, shifting the painting into spring.
This painting is evidence of considerable sessions in the studio with innumerable color experiments and before you know it, a fall painting became spring.
When viewing it close up, it is a painting with literally thousands of lace-like marks with each color uniquely contributing to the whole. Everything is done with restraint and a light touch. The end result is a line of trees with substantial mass.
Except for the base of the trees, all of the foliage and sky edges are delicate and barely there with the early spring light diffused everywhere.
My thanks to the collector that took this home.
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