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All the Parks!
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Parks 2020
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Parks 2019 Selection
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Parks 2018 Selection
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Parks 2017 Selection
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Parks 2016 Selection
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Small Sunrises
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Milwaukee County Parks Painting Project
2015–2020
My artistic practice is borne of the delights and constraints I experience as a city dwelling landscape painter.
In oil on panel I paint urban parks and nature preserves from direct observation, and in the studio from drawn sketches aided by memory. In warmer months my work is primarily outdoors, in colder months, indoors.
I’m making a contemporary contribution in the living lineage of Constable, Corot, and Mattíasdóttir. Recurrent motifs include distinctive trees, inviting paths, and placid bodies of water. Changeable clouds are a constant artistic concern. A modernist compositional emphasis on shape, play with areas of surface flatness whilst maintaining pictorial depth, and varied mark making by brush or palette knife activate the restful park imagery.
There number 156 parks, parkways, and nature preserves in the Milwaukee County system. In July 2020 I completed the project of painting all of them.
Painting these shared urban green spaces provides a glimpse of the heavenly city to come. I contribute to the broader landscape art dialogue as well as local life and culture by depicting in paint my city’s wealth of natural beauty.
2015–2020
My artistic practice is borne of the delights and constraints I experience as a city dwelling landscape painter.
In oil on panel I paint urban parks and nature preserves from direct observation, and in the studio from drawn sketches aided by memory. In warmer months my work is primarily outdoors, in colder months, indoors.
I’m making a contemporary contribution in the living lineage of Constable, Corot, and Mattíasdóttir. Recurrent motifs include distinctive trees, inviting paths, and placid bodies of water. Changeable clouds are a constant artistic concern. A modernist compositional emphasis on shape, play with areas of surface flatness whilst maintaining pictorial depth, and varied mark making by brush or palette knife activate the restful park imagery.
There number 156 parks, parkways, and nature preserves in the Milwaukee County system. In July 2020 I completed the project of painting all of them.
Painting these shared urban green spaces provides a glimpse of the heavenly city to come. I contribute to the broader landscape art dialogue as well as local life and culture by depicting in paint my city’s wealth of natural beauty.