Monday, January 24, 2011

Green and blue

100 by 120 cm.  (about 3 by 4 feet).  

Lately, I have been using bolts to attach paintings to wood frames, and/or a thicker impasto paint: I seem to be coming back to my roots in ceramic sculpture as my paintings get more three dimensional. 

This is a very personal painting, and a bit on the dark side.  On the one hand, it is a Dutch winter:  green moss and dark skies: death.  Yet when viewed in a brighter light the moss green becomes a deep and more verdant green, with  promise of growth and summer. The black center becomes a deep blue, almost more of a northern-lattitude midnight summer sky: rebirth.  I like this painting because of the ambiguity: it is my new favorite.
  







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