18x24” / Oil on canvas / Unframed
This is a painting of my kitchen window looking out onto the 13 trees in our yard. I love painting windows; they create these familiar frames around the world, the same view day after day. And in this repetition, they allow us to notice little shifts and changes. Windows are a site where inside and outside merge.
I’ve also always had a fondness for nooks and crannies. There’s often something a little magical about corners of rooms, about the meeting of edges and surfaces. These are areas of real visual interest — different geometries meeting and in doing so creating unexpected turns of color, plays of light and shadow. In this scene from early Anchorage spring, I loved the interaction of luminous and dark spaces.
References
"Porches fill in by stages, you know, not all at once. The family puts screens on the porch one summer because of the bugs. Then they see they could glass it in and make it part of the house. But it’s cold, so they add a duct from the furnace and some insulation, and now they realize they’re going to have to beef up the foundation and the roof. It happens that way because they can always visualize the next stage based on what’s already there.” - How Buildings Learn, by Stewart Brand
“If one were to give an account of all the doors one has closed and opened, of all the doors one would like to re-open, one would have to tell the story of one’s entire life.” - The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard
Window paintings by Edward Hopper.
18x24” / Oil on canvas / Unframed
This is a painting of my kitchen window looking out onto the 13 trees in our yard. I love painting windows; they create these familiar frames around the world, the same view day after day. And in this repetition, they allow us to notice little shifts and changes. Windows are a site where inside and outside merge.
I’ve also always had a fondness for nooks and crannies. There’s often something a little magical about corners of rooms, about the meeting of edges and surfaces. These are areas of real visual interest — different geometries meeting and in doing so creating unexpected turns of color, plays of light and shadow. In this scene from early Anchorage spring, I loved the interaction of luminous and dark spaces.
References
"Porches fill in by stages, you know, not all at once. The family puts screens on the porch one summer because of the bugs. Then they see they could glass it in and make it part of the house. But it’s cold, so they add a duct from the furnace and some insulation, and now they realize they’re going to have to beef up the foundation and the roof. It happens that way because they can always visualize the next stage based on what’s already there.” - How Buildings Learn, by Stewart Brand
“If one were to give an account of all the doors one has closed and opened, of all the doors one would like to re-open, one would have to tell the story of one’s entire life.” - The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard
Window paintings by Edward Hopper.
