Copper series - Small

These small imaginary landscapes are painted directly onto sheets of copper that I first formed into low reliefs. In the tradition of Romantic landscape painting, these works suggest vast atmospheric effects despite their intimate scale. Along the horizon, light and sky meet land and sea.

Forming the gleaming copper is like sculpting light. The translucent tonal colors that I paint over this luminous topography allow the metal's light and energy to radiate outwards. 

The copper sheets are mounted onto painted canvasses to display and isolate each individual work.