Presenting " Forest Rhythms", a New Series
These new smaller pieces are about texture and form; the similar but individual nature of trees which make up the rhythm of the forest. I am exploring how small shifts in shape and color can powerfully announce individuality even when immersed in dense groups of like forms. Walk into the forest; the trees may at first look much the same. Similarly, a crowd of people may look much the same. Yet each tree in the forest, like each of us, has responded to the environment in a somewhat different way. When I am painting trees, I look for the variations in forms, stances, growth patterns; differing responses to the forces of gravity, weather, nourishment, circumstances. I look for the ever changing color, the hidden color that must be searched out with an "eye" towards imagination as well as observation.
