Title: Chromatic Landscape #02
Media: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 30"x30"
Finish Date: September, 2006
Commentary:

In the spring of 2006, I was looking for new direction and also new insight on how to approach the problem of content, a problem that has not rested easy with me since I started painting. The solution was the 180 degree turn trick. Whereas until this point I had used exclusively high chroma transparent colours, I began painting with opaque gessos in neutral colours. I distinguish this type of work from kinechromatic work by the term chromostatic.

Abstract landscape has been a thematic interest for years, so I decided to move from non-objectivism to abstraction. I spent the summer exploring this new direction with this piece the extant result.

This is the first piece I have finished that uses no interference materials. I'm happy with the division of space in this image. Figurative content within the divisions is not problematic for me in this piece, unlike a number of others I have been working on. It has been fun using tonal colour although I've had to learn handing opaques and neutralized colours pretty much from scratch. I'm even finding use for a brush!