Earth and Sky, 48" x 24", oil on panel, 1986. Private collection.

This painting began as an imaginary landscape painting. Not long after the forms began to take shape I had the idea to alter the visual vernacular of the mode of rendering which is associated with the various forms. The lower area of the composition, the "land", is rendered in a rolling, liquid, manner of appearance. The blue sky is painted thickly, more as a nebulous object than a passage of atmosphere. The orange "cloud" is rendered with layers of peaked forms which are more in character with a landscape than a cloud form. Behind the cloud, the sky adopts the colors and formation of a landscape as well.