Abstract Prairie Landscape Painting: Cross Wind

Cross Wind

12x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract landscape painting was inspired by prairie fields in spring.  Pulled again to use strong yellows and yellow greens, I wanted to work in an abstract texture that would be reminiscent of grass weighted down by a long winter's snow.  This is a field I remember walking in when I was a kid, smell of wet earth, mud on my boots, buzz of insects, trees on the horizon that I never seemed to reach.

Again I've photographed this painting to show the organicness of the raw edges in keeping with the feeling of the entire piece.

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Abstract Landscape: Flood Plain, Prairie Spring

Flood Plain

12x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

The idea of this abstract landscape of a flood plain was painted in memory of the disasterous flooding of southern Manitoba, North Dakota, and Minnesota last spring in the Red River Valley. 

I was very drawn to use a very golden yellow, a colour I always associate with prairie, and a pale robins egg blue.  Robins egg blue has been a favourite of mine since I was a child and shown three tiny blue eggs in a nest taken down by my father from the eaves of our house.  I also love the idea of water permeating the land, not especially when houses are threatened, but the idea of mother nature asserting herself.

The painting is shown here without the edges trimmed by photoshop technology to show their rough organicness.  The horizon line too is drawn off slant to show a more natural organic sightline as we would find in nature.  

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