48” x 30”, Acrylic on Canvas, 2025
The Cove depicts a dense forest meeting water in early morning light - the liminal space between lake and shore, dream and memory. Using a divisionist technique of dots and dashes, I build the scene through accumulations of color and mark-making, creating a landscape that feels both hyper-real and impossibly idealized.
The painting emerged over three years of returning to this image - a longing for complete immersion in nature, the sensory experience of being held by water while surrounded by trees. It's about homesickness for a place that might not exist except in memory: Arkansas mornings, the particular quality of light through leaves, the way forest and water speak to each other.
The vivid, active surface contrasts with the soft, matte periwinkle sky - a moment of rest above all that visual intensity. Black outlines give structure to the dream. The graphic quality, the "too good to be true" saturation - these aren't accidents. They're how hope looks. How longing translates into paint.
This is nature as I want to remember it: generous, enveloping, more vivid than life. A place to return to when the actual world feels too sharp.
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48” x 30”, Acrylic on Canvas, 2025
The Cove depicts a dense forest meeting water in early morning light - the liminal space between lake and shore, dream and memory. Using a divisionist technique of dots and dashes, I build the scene through accumulations of color and mark-making, creating a landscape that feels both hyper-real and impossibly idealized.
The painting emerged over three years of returning to this image - a longing for complete immersion in nature, the sensory experience of being held by water while surrounded by trees. It's about homesickness for a place that might not exist except in memory: Arkansas mornings, the particular quality of light through leaves, the way forest and water speak to each other.
The vivid, active surface contrasts with the soft, matte periwinkle sky - a moment of rest above all that visual intensity. Black outlines give structure to the dream. The graphic quality, the "too good to be true" saturation - these aren't accidents. They're how hope looks. How longing translates into paint.
This is nature as I want to remember it: generous, enveloping, more vivid than life. A place to return to when the actual world feels too sharp.
Shipping: Contact for quote. Free local delivery available in Dallas/Fort Worth area.
