John Muir, 1838-1914
naturalist & writer
Since I moved to Northern California in 1977, I have been in love with the amazing array of landscape that exists just outside the urban areas. The gold hills that look like sleeping lions, distant mountains, intense light, cloud play and windbreaks made of eucalyptus trees are just some of the elements that have captured me. Like most of my landscape work, these paintings are of imaginary places, representing archtypal California scenes. In these works I have begun with conte crayon sketches, added washes of oil color, and I've tried to keep areas in the natural flax color of the linen.