11 x 14

Oil on Linen

Maple Shadow Frame

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 in 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.