These paintings are about immersion. Each one draws you inside a space where light gathers slowly — through branches, up through layers of paint, from the center of a cathedral nave. The subject is not landscape observed from a distance but landscape felt from within: enveloping, sheltered, alive with color that seems to generate its own glow.
Developed through oil glazing on acrylic subpainting, the light in these works is built the way dusk deepens — one layer at a time, until the interior becomes luminous.
Recent Project
This painting began as a drawing — a departure from my usual process. A charcoal sketch, sealed with acrylic, became the foundation for layers of oil glaze. But the drawing kept asserting itself. I found myself drawing with the oil paint, tracing and retracing the tangle of branches, working slowly toward the glow caught between them. Warm golden light presses against cool blues, held together and held apart by a lattice of bare branches.
On view in Moving Deeper into Light, baby grand Gallery, Grand Opera House, Wilmington, DE. May 1–31, 2026.
Client
The Atlas Project
Year
01/01/0001