I grew up in glacial valleys. The immensity of the ice-sheet is beyond imagining- roughly a mile high where I lived. And while it sat there, where the ice met the rock, it ground the rock down so the latest thinking goes. When the glacier melted (in stages slow and fast), it’s relentless handiwork began to appear. For me it was the Finger Lakes of new York, US. Valleys and lakes gouged deep in one place and dirt and rock piled into hills only a few miles away. Raw forces still visible.
The only way to portray that kind of energy is to abstract it as one draws inspiration. The title “Trio in White, Blue and Green- Lake Country”, serves to focus on the results of massive deformation rendered in a kind of aggressive beauty. The medium is opaque Watercolor (gouache) on paper.
