After L.A., Water
These paintings were made after my three months in Los Angeles (Jan,Feb,March 2015) where I did a residency at The Mountain School of Arts.
I am trying to express the warmth, the thirst, the dryness, the desert, the vastness. I was looking for/craving those sensations coming from an area in the Basque region of France that is very humid and wet. I used Walnut oil as my medium to express that humid feeling/being stuck/cold in the wet; mixing the polar opposites of these two places and the deep nostalgia I had for Southern California. Also the relationship to water from a personal and global perspective, that keeps coming up in my work.
It has taken them 6 months to dry.
"L.A Days, Water", Oil and Walnut on canvas, 70cmX70cm, 271/2"X271/2".
"L.A Days, Water", Oil and Walnut on Canvas, 60CmX70cm, 271/2"X271/2".
"L.A Days, Water", Oil and Walnut on Canvas, 60CmX70cm, 271/2"X271/2".
"L.A Days, Water", Oil and Walnut on Canvas, 60CmX70cm, 271/2"X271/2".
"Water Bottles, Patriarch Dance", Oil on Canvas, 50CmX50Cm, 191/2"X191/2", Private Collection
"Past, Present, Future", Oil on canvas, 46cmX55cm, Private collection
"L.A Days, Water", Oil and Walnut on Canvas, , 40cmX40cm.
"L.A Days, Water", Oil and Walnut on Canvas, , 40cmX40cm, Private Collection
"Water and tubes study", Oil on Canvas, 300X200cm.