Prairie Abstracts

For years I accepted landscape as having a prescribed look. I live in a country with a strong tradition in the landscape genre. But, I refuse to trade totally in the currency of this established style.

A few years ago
"maps.google.com" gave us a radical new view of our familiar space. Similarly the look of my paintings pushed to flatten the planes and create shape relationships. Re-inventing the thought of landscape has changed the content of my works, forcing a re-examination of spacial relationships. The painting grows is dependent upon the tension suggested by these landforms.