ocean fields

This portfolio is an ongoing series of abstract oceanscapes. I paint these pieces on location at the ocean, placing them directly on the ground, in hopes that the ethos of the landscape seeps into the work through osmosis. It’s also to get me outside of myself, tapping into my subconscious flow. It’s impossible to overthink the work when painting this large outside while battling the elements. “Ocean Night” and “Bioluminescence” were created at night in the dark. I did not know what the final paintings looked like until I returned them to my studio. These are not landscape paintings in the traditional sense. But they are paintings that could only have been created by me in the landscape under the specific climatic conditions when they were created. I view the paintings as artifacts of the landscape more than representations.