Artist, Paintings, Landscape, Abstract

topography

This series of work was created while in Indiana. I was on the hunt for places where the land and sky met, with no trees in between. In places with mountains and hills this condition is commonplace. In Indiana, you have to look. They are usually man-made places. Damns, landfills, gravel pits. Places not know for beauty. But when you strip away the context and the connotations, these places are beautiful topographic wonders. These paintings find the beauty before us, that we didn’t see.

The Bean Field 30 x 40, oil on canvas

rare topographic wonder
a hilly soybean field
land meets the sky

The Gravel Pit, 30 x 40, oil on canvas

rare topographic wonder
a gravel pit
land meets sky

Gravel Pit II, 30 x 40, oil on canvas

rare topographic wonder
a pit of gravel
land meets the sky

Landfill - spring 20 x 30. oil on canvas

rare topographic wonder
a landfill in spring time
land meets sky

Landfill - winter 20 x 30, oil on canvas

rare topographic wonder
a landfill in winter
land meets sky

Landfill - night 16 x 16, oil on canvas

rare topographic wonder
a landfill at night
land meets sky

The Mississinewa Damn 20 x 30, oil on canvas

rare topographic wonder
a damn piled with rocks
land meets sky

The Salamonie Damn 60 x 96, oil on canvas

rare topographic wonder
a damn heaving with grass
land meets sky

The Salamonie Damn

At 5’ x 8’ this is the largest painting I have done (and much larger than any other piece in this series). It was of the Salomonie Reservoir Damn. I would often go for runs out there, and would run straight up the damn. It was a gigantic wall of seemingly vertical green grass. I found it both beautiful and daunting. I contemplated on its size and subtlety.

The bean field

The Bean Field 30 x 40

The Gravel Pit, 30 x 40

Gravel Pit II, 30 x 35

Landfill - spring 20 x 30

Landfill - winter 20 x 30

The Mississinewa Damn 20 x 30

Landfill - night 16 x 16

The Salamonie Damn 60 x 96