Pastel Écu on Arches Paper | 40×26 inches | 2024 | Nature as a Cosmos Series
If Field Notes I was the meadow seen from within — immersive, close, electric with detail — Field Notes II steps back and breathes.
Here the garden opens into something almost dreamlike. A soft, luminous sky of aquamarine and rose bleeds down into the upper reaches of the composition, where the silhouette of a dark sculptural topiary stands like a quiet sentinel at the garden's edge. Before it, the border unfolds in a long, generous sweep — tall yellow lupins rising with quiet authority, white star-shaped blooms catching the light like scattered sparks, vivid red flowers burning low against the deep green groundcover, and beyond, a haze of pink and purple that dissolves softly into the atmospheric distance.
This is the garden as a place of contemplation. Of depth. Of the particular quality of stillness that descends in the late afternoon when the light goes golden and horizontal and everything in the garden seems to exhale simultaneously.
Where Field Notes I crackled with energy, Field Notes II invites you to linger. Together they form a complete statement — two ways of seeing, two modes of being in the natural world, two moments in the same ongoing conversation between artist and garden. The series title says it all — these are notes taken in the field, observations made with full attention, the world recorded as it actually is rather than as we imagine it to be.
Rendered in pastel écu on Arches paper — the most luminous and immediate of mediums on the finest paper available — the surface glows with a quality of light that is entirely its own. The teal greens are deep and resonant, the sky tender and transient, the whole composition held together by the quiet confidence of an artist completely fluent in the language of the natural world.
✦ Original, one-of-a-kind work ✦ Pastel écu on Arches paper ✦ 40 × 26 inches ✦ Created 2024 ✦ Unframed ✦ Part of the Nature as a Cosmos series ✦ Ships rolled in a tube ✦ Free worldwide shipping
The garden, exhaling. The light, going gold. The moment, held.
Pastel Écu on Arches Paper | 40×26 inches | 2024 | Nature as a Cosmos Series
If Field Notes I was the meadow seen from within — immersive, close, electric with detail — Field Notes II steps back and breathes.
Here the garden opens into something almost dreamlike. A soft, luminous sky of aquamarine and rose bleeds down into the upper reaches of the composition, where the silhouette of a dark sculptural topiary stands like a quiet sentinel at the garden's edge. Before it, the border unfolds in a long, generous sweep — tall yellow lupins rising with quiet authority, white star-shaped blooms catching the light like scattered sparks, vivid red flowers burning low against the deep green groundcover, and beyond, a haze of pink and purple that dissolves softly into the atmospheric distance.
This is the garden as a place of contemplation. Of depth. Of the particular quality of stillness that descends in the late afternoon when the light goes golden and horizontal and everything in the garden seems to exhale simultaneously.
Where Field Notes I crackled with energy, Field Notes II invites you to linger. Together they form a complete statement — two ways of seeing, two modes of being in the natural world, two moments in the same ongoing conversation between artist and garden. The series title says it all — these are notes taken in the field, observations made with full attention, the world recorded as it actually is rather than as we imagine it to be.
Rendered in pastel écu on Arches paper — the most luminous and immediate of mediums on the finest paper available — the surface glows with a quality of light that is entirely its own. The teal greens are deep and resonant, the sky tender and transient, the whole composition held together by the quiet confidence of an artist completely fluent in the language of the natural world.
✦ Original, one-of-a-kind work ✦ Pastel écu on Arches paper ✦ 40 × 26 inches ✦ Created 2024 ✦ Unframed ✦ Part of the Nature as a Cosmos series ✦ Ships rolled in a tube ✦ Free worldwide shipping
The garden, exhaling. The light, going gold. The moment, held.
