According to Wassily Kandinsky, “color 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.”
Inspired by the poetic and transcendent possibilities of colour, and the natural grandeur of the Pacific Northwest, these gentle intervals—sensuous bands of mostly Prussian Blue and Terra Verde, applied layer upon layer—attempt to appeal to our deepest spiritual levels.
To convene with nature’s sublime is to experience the kind of awe and reverence that transcends language and rational thought. Here, 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 even with modern life’s uncertainties and mundane urgencies, 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.
"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.
"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.
Installation, November 2024