Greens Painting

The Glass paintings reference the Dutch still life tradition. However, it is the composition of the reflections within the glass that interests me rather than the formal relationships of the glass objects to one another. I take multiple photographs of a still life, each with a different focal length and then digitally merge the images to produce a composite that has an unreal clarity which flattens the space and abstracts the image. Painting in a loose and brushy style from the gridded photograph further abstracts the image, each square becoming an individual composition in the larger field of the canvas.