Mesa with Red Hills, New Mexico (as seen in TOAF London July 5-7) Painting

This is one of a series of works I did as a result of a journey across New Mexico in the Footsteps of Georgia O’Keeffe having seen her major show at Tate Modern in 2016. This is one of her motifs, the Cerro Pedernal, flat topped mountain which her house in Ghost Ranch overlooked, seen from across red hills which she had also painted. I reinterpreted this view on a larger scale and using my signature technique intended to evoke the physicality of the landscape - pronounced textures achieved with materials such as plaster, resin, wax, texture gels, gold and silver leaf on panel . Like all my paintings this one responds to varying light conditions acquiring different coloration and mood as the light moves across it or in artificial light