The animal landscape paintings are a result of revisiting my work from the 1980s with a new attitude. Surfaces are flattened and when perspective is used it becomes the subject matter, and the objects are juxtaposed using different scales. Color bonds the stylized forms into a homogenized whole. Nature is on stage—out of its context. It becomes a performer in an artificial world viewed from a TV screen or behind boundaries in a nature park.
Nature exists as a cultural phenomenon—we are only marginally involved.
Note: Paintings are approximately 63” x 72” in size, painted with acrylic and oil on canvas and painted in 2005-2006.
