Notes on Painting ~ Space

Out of the Blue, acrylic on cradled wood panel, 12 x 12 inches

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit. 
~ John Updike ~

​Creating a feeling of spaciousness is something that I struggle with in my abstract landscape works. The spaces I strive to create in my paintings are a direct response to the landscape here in the Blue Ridge Mountains. There is distance but also a closeness of rising mountainsides, tree lines and forests.

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