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LANDSCAPES
With this relatively new body of work I am folding back into a previous set of imaginary landscapes from an earlier allegorical period. Here they are based on my own travel photography, which I use as reference for lines and basic shapes. From this source material, I play with abstraction and memory. While in the process of painting these landscapes, I am able to be somewhere else, to travel again, to revisit the places I’ve been.
Working on these paintings allows me to try a variety of new approaches to handling paint, and the results can be clearly seen in the backgrounds of many of my stuffed animal portraits. What began simply as studies a few years back is now growing into an extensive body of work, which will eventually include larger pieces.