The Crop Paintings
My most recent
work seeks to question the veracity of the natural world as it is
traditionally depicted in certain art historical tropes. As always, the
scenes are based on memory, direct observation and imagination. Entitled The
Crop Paintings, these new works are shaped from birch plywood with a router
before the painting process begins, in a kind of pre-cropping action. By
removing the traditional square/rectangle orientation of a given landscape,
I have taken away those four familiar corners that have always contained our
frame of reference. This has forced me to paint these fictional places in a
new, more detailed way. |
