7 x 5 inch study for “floating”
7 x 5 inch study for Early Tree studies
10 x 7 paper study fo r Floating concept
10 x 7 study for Early Trees
large strart for Early Trees 54 x 45
There and Back again 36 x 54 finished and very happy
Two paintings in the studio today exploring the same idea from different angles — how far back can the eye travel before it has to return?
There and Back Again uses the left tree group deliberately quiet. Not timid — restrained. The structures along the middle band need room to pull the viewer deeper. The trees let you go.
The new 54×45 revisits an earlier concept: a single dominant tree as the near plane, the picture organized around the push and pull between here and back there. The question the painting is asking hasn't changed. The scale has.
Front and back. The eye moves, returns, moves again.