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| Come Spring Watercolor 17.5 x 24 |
is an expression that implies jobs and tasks that will be undertaken once the winter weather clears...that which is yet to be. Earlier in my artistic career, I swore that I would never paint a barn. For me, those barns painted during the 70's and 80's reached a kitsch level...way too sweet, way too charming. Never say never. As I drove along shooting references for a landscape painting, the subjects that most appealed to me were both buildings and animals. The bare landscape just doesn't do it for me. Maybe just too much green, as was spoken earlier on by Georgia O'Keefe. I wanted my own barn to be more current, at least as current as an old barn can possibly be. It is somehow comforting, a symbol of the everlasting, of the work that sustains us.
This is my offering to the subject of "spring landscape".
Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge. (Winston Churchill)
