"Beautiful Inside My Mind Forever" - original artwork on canvas Print

Abstraction is the art world’s Miles Davis and James Brown combined. It came along and challenged our perceptions and the way we think about the world we see. Abstract landscape painting can defy the outdated, Bourgeois viewpoint of a traditional landscape painting simply by changing the dynamic and the focus. On this series of artworks, I use only a palate knife to focus light and texture in ways that transform the conceptual definition of what landscape paintings can be, and the ways they might be explored in contemporary art. With the use of diverse and non-traditional materials on my canvas, including the wine from vineyards I have visited, I am introducing shading as well as meaning to my landscapes. I leave my brushes behind in this series and I get physical with my materials. I drip and throw a mixture of wine and paint onto flat-lying canvas to create the flowing grass and flowers found in these works. Through this more physical and chaotic process, I am attempting to communicate a sense of quiet elegance, peace and tranquility.