Niwa. Acrylic and gouache on canvas. 40 x 30 in.
Winter. Acrylic on canvas. 40 x 30 in.
Shakkei. Acrylic and gouache on canvas. 36 x 24 in.
The Other Side. Acrylic and gouache on canvas. 16 x 12 3/4 in.
Prussian Night. Acrylic and gouache on canvas. 14 x 18 in.
According to Wassily Kandinsky, “colour is the keyboard”; a means of exercising influence upon the soul. It is the artist’s hand through which the keys cause the human soul “to vibrate.”
To convene with nature’s sublime is to experience a kind of awe and reverence that transcends language and rational thought. Here, gentle intervals—sensuous bands of mostly Prussian Blue and Terra Verde, applied layer upon layer—evoke the natural grandeur of the Pacific Northwest. Amid towering cedars, the steely Pacific, moss-laden gardens, and tranquil trills—raindrops falling on roofs, seagulls calling, waves crashing on shorelines—a feeling of expansiveness prevails, and despite the uncertainties and mundane urgencies of modern daily life, nature’s ancient verses do as well.
Some of these works were featured in Poetics of Place (2024), a catalogue of selected prints and paintings.