Fact in Nature – Autumn

Autumn

Fact in Nature

The Final Mowing 12 x 16″ Oil

John is getting ready for a significant solo exhibition on the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Artwork titled, “Transcendence: Fact in Nature.” In the midst of writing concerning the work for the exhibition catalog, he walks the reader by the 4 seasons and the inspiration and challenges they create to the panorama painter.

This week, we wished to share a few of his ideas and work about Autumn with you.

“Fall and winter are my favourite occasions of the yr for portray right here. The colours within the Midwest are nothing just like the spectacular and sensible orange, crimson and evergreen shows that I had been used to portray within the hardwood and conifer forests of the Hudson Valley. Nor are there blue mountains rising as much as create the right backdrop for any topic. It took me a while to adapt my imaginative and prescient to the subtleties of this midwestern panorama.”

“In my opinion, Fall can also be the perfect daylight of the yr in our latitude. The sunshine is now not overhead, however is available in at an angle, growing the shadow results. Early morning and once more in late afternoon the golden mild garments every part it touches with heat magnificence. Wealthy shadows tackle a coolness not current in the summertime, making an exquisite shade distinction with the sunlit world. There are such a lot of topics to color every Fall that I get fairly excited by it and it’s laborious typically to only calm down and paint one thing. Nature places all her effort into changing the large energies gathered throughout the summer season into this unbelievable transitional miracle. Every little thing modifications and nondescript summer season vegetation all of the sudden grow to be star performers as they modify colours or produce vibrant berries, like buckbrush and winterberry do.”