An original mixed media painting on paper
13x19" unframed, (mat size, 19x25")
$300.00, - (plus $20.00, pack and ship)
Well over a century ago, one of this city's real estate developers gave the city a very
big tract of land, to be made into a great park The unspoiled land had large, forested
areas, and a diverse topography, and as it was developed, it became the home of our
zoo, some golf courses, a large, outdoor theater, and various other civic amenities.
The early designers of the park planted groves of evergreen trees and other varieties
as well, along the sides of a grand mall, which stretches down toward the wooded
river valley, and as those trees matured they became peaceful sanctuaries away from
busy city life.
This little expressionist painting was an interpretation of one of those groves, on a
breezy day, as I was listening to the winds whispering in the pines.
(click on image to enlarge)
which I sometimes feel most free to let myself go and become more expressive about the
beauty of nature as I am experiencing it. Then I can allow myself to follow my feelings
into abstraction, rather than simply doing a purely representational rendering of a scene.
That is the artist's equivalent of a writer giving himself permission to write an expressive
poem about a scene, rather than writing a simple, descriptive essay.
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