Willow Painting

Willow, from the Liminal Spaces series was painted en plein air during fall at Windsor Park in Ottawa, Canada. Painting while standing, I moved intuitively with the dynamics of wind, flying pine needles and rain drops while applying thick watercolour pigments with a pallet knife to a full sheet of wet 300 lb. rag paper, held by a special portable easel. I chose this medium and the wet-on-wet painting process for the way pigment colours intermingle at varying intensities creating a sense of nature's immediacy and liminality. The watercolour painting was then torn in half horizontally. Each panel is floated and optimally positioned in a box-frame creating a contained diptych. Within the archival interior of the box frame the panels are optimally positioned for viewer awareness of looking back-and-forth to see the whole, as when in nature. The professional maple wood framing and UV glass provides longevity protection.