Oasis series 2009 – 2012

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Oasis evolved out of my earlier series Summertime. The paintings of Oasis shift attention away from the figure, allowing the figure to be subsumed in a highly abstracted and gestural landscape. I try to capture the ever-present sense of shifting time and space that the uneven light and evasive natural forms of moving trees, water and undergrowth can evoke. This landscape has become increasingly rare and its beauty seems fraught with undertones of anxiety at the prospect of its loss. The landscapes of Oasis are not, like the landscapes painted by early American painters, timeless and untouchable, but rather, something painfully fragile which we move through, like the ghosts of our own past—like children at play, unaware of our serious futures, yet filled with a prescient sense of imminence.

Fallen, 2011
68 x 120 inches / 173 x 305 cm
oil on canvas

catalogue # 11d02

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Night Incomplete, 2011
147 x 193 cm / 58 x 76 inches
oil on canvas

catalogue # 11d01

catalogue #10d19