Tree Shapes

To begin this spring semester, I completed 20 drawings of tree shapes growing near my parents' cabin in Wyman Township, Maine. These new works have inspired the series of paintings pictured here, where I have used a limited pallet and washed the canvas with a buttercup ground.



In the new work, I continue to think about the interplay of positive and negative shape. Similar to the shadows which crept across my paintings last semester, my tree paintings are a response to luminosity, patterning and the push and pull of light and dark.






Paintings are 3' x 3' .