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Often I paint from photos, but sometimes I simply want to follow my imagination and see where it leads. "Mountain View" is one of those paintings. I'd just returned from the mountains and wanted to capture what lingered in my memory — the particular feeling of the Blue Ridge Parkway, its layered ridges fading into the distance, the way the colors soften as they recede.
The palette here is quieter than much of my work — muted, atmospheric blues ranging from warm to cool, and greens that lean cooler, deeper. Think of the blue-grey distance of a mountain ridge at dusk, or the deep hunter green of a forested slope giving way to softer sage in the middle ground. No photograph guided this one. Just memory, and the mountain doing what mountains do — staying with you long after you've come home.
This painting sold, but it represents a side of my work I return to from time to time. If you're drawn to mountain landscapes, I'd love to hear from you.
Often I paint from photos, but sometimes I simply want to follow my imagination and see where it leads. "Mountain View" is one of those paintings. I'd just returned from the mountains and wanted to capture what lingered in my memory — the particular feeling of the Blue Ridge Parkway, its layered ridges fading into the distance, the way the colors soften as they recede.
The palette here is quieter than much of my work — muted, atmospheric blues ranging from warm to cool, and greens that lean cooler, deeper. Think of the blue-grey distance of a mountain ridge at dusk, or the deep hunter green of a forested slope giving way to softer sage in the middle ground. No photograph guided this one. Just memory, and the mountain doing what mountains do — staying with you long after you've come home.
This painting sold, but it represents a side of my work I return to from time to time. If you're drawn to mountain landscapes, I'd love to hear from you.