I think of Late Summer like I think of a dinner at a nice restaurant. It’s an experience you are fully immersed in, glasses of wine clinking, excitement with the first course, and then the second one. Finally, the dessert is ordered, which of course there is no room for, but is embraced all the same. The night goes too quickly and the experience fades into a lovely memory.
Late Summer is the light of the sun at golden hour. It is a never-ending feeling while one is in the moment, but it becomes impossibly impermanent the longer it lasts.
Some drink a melody
Poured out to quench a growing thirst.
Alas, the sun sets.
I have been working on a series of watercolor pattern artworks for some time now and I am excited to finally launch them into the world.
I started painting geometric patterns as a way to explore visual imagery other than the landscape series I have been doing. Patterns for me have always expressed a fundamental human creative trait. In their essence patterns are shape and color, repeated again and again. I think of the first humans, striking a sea shell again and again until it meant something more than simply a mark. What is more human than creating a pattern or a line that indicates meaning?
I gave myself the freedom to step away from landscape art and explore. I scoured for examples of interior tiling and textiles, anything with particular patterns that felt interesting to me. Playing with color combinations was next and led me to dream up the textures of color at the end of the summer.
This series is an exploration of interior art and design. It is a step into imagining landscape art in the context of our dwellings. As these works were created, I enjoyed pairing them up with landscape works. In a way the patterns represented some fundamentals and painting landscapes obscured - line, color, and shape.
Here is the first collection, painted on 11”x15” paper.
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