36 x 36

Oil on Birch Panel

Maple Shadow Frame

Her view is a duet with the Water Tower series and my figurative laundry lady. You can read about that below, I guess she needed to make an appearance. I pictured this while I painted it as a field in the Delta, with nothing for miles but water towers in the distance. She is shielding her eye to see what she has made, or to see what is going on. I am not sure, but she is a product of many other smaller works of the same pose.

There is a whole series of water towers, oil rigs, and other giant containers you see perched on legs all over the South. I am in Virginia but was raised in the Louisiana Delta area. I have been there many times recently and it kept striking me the sheer flatness of the landscape and then the numerous tall structured that just come out of the ground. I have seen these my whole life but suddenly I was aware of them. And that describes how I make paintings. They just happen like that. I don’t see for a long time then one day I do. I may not paint it that very day but it starts that small and suddenly I am that great place where I am just painting and being with color and not over thinking what to paint but just doing it. That feeling is the entire reason I paint. That feeling of just being immersed and detached from anything but the then and now.