Portfolio > Backyard Drift

Backyard Morning
Acrylic on Linen
38 x 40
2023
Channel Crossing
Acrylic on Linen
48 x 48
2023
Bug Light and Apple Tree
Acrylic on Linen
38 x 40
2023
Flight Path
Acrylic on Linen
38 x 40
2023
Night Dock
Acrylic on Linen
38 x 40
2023
Backyard Drift
Acrylic on Linen
48 x 48
2023

As an observer of my surroundings, I catalog imagery from the landscape around me — bell buoys and lighthouses that mark the channel in Casco Bay, birds in the willow tree outside the window, light flickering on water.

The compositions in my paintings are mash-ups of observed, remembered and imagined places where one can be in relationship with others, the world and the self. Compressing the sensation of space and time, the paintings, like bonsai, are miniaturized representations — compact reductions of lived experience.

Here is a link
to the artist talk at studio e gallery in Seattle
youtu.be/Ksb8EuNKHqs?si=SojQzdWupusGKUlz

This collection of work can be seen:

Gail Spaien and Heather Wilcoxon
studio e gallery
Seattle, Washington

October 3 - 28, 2023

Here is a link
to the artist talk at studio e gallery in Seattle
youtu.be/Ksb8EuNKHqs?si=SojQzdWupusGKUlz