LAYERS OF THE FOREST, acrylic on canvas, 20×16
THE FOREST’S TANGLE of limb, brush, trunk, and vine presents an illusion of intersecting lines and planes of trees spatially many feet apart, never touching yet looking like a dense web from afar. A fallen tree cradles in the broad fork of a nearby oak, buttressed for decades by its neighbor, slowly altering the landscape over years before its eventual collapse.
KUDOS to the organizers of ‘Layers,’ the new exhibit at Dane Gallery, 34 Front St., Indian Orchard, MA. Patricia Jenks, Ellen Pollock, and the Artists of Studio 227 have put together an outstanding and diverse show with more than 40 juried pieces from 20-plus artists.
These are my two works in ‘Layers’ and the statements accompanying them. The exhibit will be open Saturdays through February 15.
THE RIVERBED is filled with light and air bouncing along the shifting current, specks and atoms merging swift or slow haphazardly, animated by eddies, stones, and fish lungs.
