Exhibition opens November 30
Images Gallery 1823 W. Wilson

Landscape studies | Summer 2012

These small paintings were inspired by the painter William Nicholson (British, 1872–1949), who was a society portrait painter, print maker and still life painter and who made small en plein air landscape paintings for his own pleasure. The pictures Nicholson made are profound but simple–even modest. They speak to me of the sheer joy in the process of recording the sensation in the moment of looking at landscape elements, and not only nature but also man made structures.

All the paintings below were done over a very hot summer of 2012, and because of the brutality of the weather, many were made in the studio from memory, color notes, and photographs. I sought to recreate the plein air experience in the studio.

One other note on the formal qualities of the paintings: although the size is fairly consistent I used many different color grounds, some pure pigment (e.g. cadmium red) and some scraped, buffed, mixed or layered with multiple colors.  Click on images to enlarge.

 

 

Hagar Shores, MI September 2012 | oil on linen | 13 x 11 inches

 

September 17, 2012 Hagar Shores, MI | oil on linen | 11 x 13 inches  

 

September 12, 2012 | oil on linen  | 13 x 11 inches

 

August 31, 2012 | oil on linen | 13 x 11 inches

 

August 27, 2012  | oil on linen panel | 12 x 9 inches

  

August 2012  | oil on linen | 11 x 13 inches

 

August 13, 2012 | oil on linen | 9 x 11 inches  

 

August 6, 2012 | oil on linen | 13 x 11 inches

 

August 1, 2012 | oil on linen | 13 x 11 inches

 

July 2012 Hagar Shores Dune | oil on linen | 11 x 9 inches

 

July 24, 2012  | oil on linen | 9 x 11 inches

 

July 18, 2012  | oil on linen | 9 x 11 inches

 

July 9, 2012  | oil on linen | 11 x 13 inches

 

July 2012 Montrose Beach | oil on linen | 9 x 11 inches

 

July 2, 2012  | oil on linen | 13 x 11 inches

 

June 25, 2012 | oil on linen | 11 x 13 inches  

 

June 16, 2012 | oil on linen | 11 x 9 inches  

Drawings | Winter Spring 2012 

Paintings | Summer Fall 2011

 

Untitled 2012 Toby 1 | graphite oil paint on 300 lb paper | 41 x 29.5 in 

 

Untitled 2012 Toby 2 | graphite oil paint on 300 lb paper | 41 x 29.5 in

 

Untitled 2012 Toby 3 | graphite oil paint on 300 lb paper | 41 x 29.5 in

 

 

Untitled 2012 Toby 4 | graphite oil paint on 300 lb paper | 41 x 29.5 in

 

At the Getty Villa 2012 | graphite oil paint on 300 lb paper | 29.5 x 41 in

LA jet trail 2012 | graphite oil paint on 300 lb paper | 29.5 x 41 in

 

 

LA 2012 | graphite oil paint on 300 lb paper | 41 x 29.5 in

 

 

LA 2012 2 | graphite oil paint on 300 lb paper | 41 x 29.5 in

 

 

Whitehall 2012 | graphite oil paint on 300 lb paper | 41 x 29.5 in

 

 

Whitehall 2 2012 | graphite oil paint on 300 lb paper | 41 x 29.5 in

 

 

Whitehall 3 2012 | graphite oil paint on 300 lb paper | 41 x 29.5 in

 

 

Untitled tree 2012 | graphite oil paint on 300 lb paper | 41 x 29.5 in

Paintings | Summer, Fall 2011

 

East View 340 E. Randolph, 40th Floor 2011 | Oil on paper | 22 x 17.5 in

 

South View, Rain 2011 | oil on panel | 18 x 19 in

 

Studio view south, CHA senior building | oil on panel | 20 x 24 in

 

Studio view south July 21, 2011 | oil on panel | 7 x 15 in

 

Studio view east July 28, 2011 | oil on panel | 8.5 x 18 in

 

Studio view west July 24, 2011 | oil on panel | 10 x 22 in

 

Whitehall, OH August 14, 2011| oil on panel | 7 x 22 in