He is influenced by the work and processes of Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. He has a DJI Drone that he flies to get photographs of an elevated perspective and uses these photos as references for future paintings. He loosely draws in pencil, charcoal, Conte' Crayon, etc. to get a quick, direct montage of imagery on the canvas. He then paints the background using thin washes of oil paint in primary colors and white. He layers paint and uses very thin washes and thickly applied paint with a palette knife. He loves showing the under-painting, the under-drawing and layers of paint. Any given section of canvas might have a dozen layers of paint while another section might show raw canvas.

Abstract Landscape

The Solstice and Equinox series is inspired by - and worked on - around the official season changes - Spring and Autumn Equinox, Summer and Winter Solstice. He uses a limited and nearly repeated color palette and design much like Robert Motherwell's series "Elegy to the Spanish Republic".

Solstice and Equinox

This collection is a group of paintings based on memories and impressions of a recent day-trip to the Caribbean island of Curacao.

Caribbean Colorbook

The Socially Distanced paintings were made as a reaction to the stop of the world necessitated by the danger of the spread of the virus. They are painted over canvases that had previous starts on them. Much like the pandemic, the paintings in this series just overtook everything else that was going on. At this point, he has 30 paintings in the series - one for each day in April. He may extend it further, but has exhausted his inventory of partially painted canvases.

His artistic influences for his Social Distanced Series are Robert Motherwell, Gary Komarin, Hans Hoffman, Jasper Johns.

Socially Distanced

His objective in making "Nature Chronicles - Seeing What is Outside from Inside" is to make abstract paintings based on looking outside at his natural surroundings. He lives in the woods of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, USA. His woods are beautiful and inspiring every day of every season.
Many species of birds (wild turkeys, hawks, finches, crows, doves, cardinals, bluebirds, sparrows, and all sorts of woodpeckers) are regulars. All sorts of animals (squirrels, foxes, raccoons, chipmunks, opossums, and flying squirrels) live just outside. The natural backdrops (trees, ferns, lichen and mosses, mountain laurels and rhododendrons) inspire him. The mountain weather (snow, fog, ice, rain, wind and sun) changes hourly.

Nature Chronicles - Seeing What is Outside from Inside

Palettes become paintings. Anytime he needs to mix paint, he does so on a professional grade artist canvas. He uses canvases as his palettes so he is never wasting paint. He also enjoys the surprises he gets when random colors are mixed next to other random colors. 
He likes the challenge of turning his palettes into complete, cohesive paintings. He most admires the processes and paintings of the Abstract Expressionists. Motherwell, DeKooning, Hoffman, Frankenthaler etc. and hopes his paintings and the processes he uses reflects his admiration of them and their art.

Palettes

The Weather We’ve Been Waiting For is part of his Nature Chronicles - Seeing What is Outside from Inside. His objective for this series is to make abstract paintings based on looking outside at his natural surroundings. He lives in the woods of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, USA. His woods are beautiful and inspiring every day of every season.

The Weather We’ve Been Waiting For

The Other Art Fair - Dallas 2022

Acrylic, Graphite, Charcoal on Canvas. 
My intentions are direct, reactive paintings with bold colors and fresh marks. 

Steven Page Prewitt