Dusk and Dawn - SOLD
Oil on canvas, diptych, 36x48
Light shifts in color and intensity from dusk to dawn. When we dream, we enter a world of imagination and personal iconography. Meaning and messages flow in and out like the tides.
I started this painting with a charcoal drawing of the beach, and added the figure, rocks and waves in subsequent layers of color and charcoal, back and forth.
From my small studio at the Friday Harbor Atelier, in the small harbor town (yes, Friday Harbor) on San Juan Island, I paint abstract landscape paintings with a touch of sacred geometry. I love to go to the beach at the San Juan Island National Historical Park called South Beach, with a unique 2-mile beach covered with old-growth driftwood. I take photographs and sketch the fascinating forms there. Then I go back to the studio and work from those primary documents and allow the painting to emerge. I hope my paintings can transport you into a space of imaginative form, color and spirit.