The land in Tuscany has a musical quality, with rolling hills weaving together harmoniously in an infinitely satisfying way. I look for similar landscapes in Iowa, and I try to convey the muscular shapes of the land and the clean geometry of the houses and barns planted on it. Rugged landscapes like those in Italy’s Le Marche region and in South Dakota’s Badlands and Black Hills inspire me in an entirely different way, with their dramatic, ancient, almost architectural forms and clear patterns of light and shadow.
Between stretches of painting landscapes, I do still life "portraits" of vegetables and fruits as a way of exploring color and form. From time to time, I do paintings of family members or myself dressed in vintage clothes and placed in various settings as another way to stretch creatively.
The land in Tuscany has a musical quality, with rolling hills weaving together harmoniously in an infinitely satisfying way. I look for similar landscapes in Iowa, and I try to convey the muscular shapes of the land and the clean geometry of the houses and barns planted on it. Rugged landscapes like those in Italy’s Le Marche region and in South Dakota’s Badlands and Black Hills inspire me in an entirely different way, with their dramatic, ancient, almost architectural forms and clear patterns of light and shadow.
Between stretches of painting landscapes, I do still life "portraits" of vegetables and fruits as a way of exploring color and form. From time to time, I do paintings of family members or myself dressed in vintage clothes and placed in various settings as another way to stretch creatively.
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