Ox-Bow Flowers 2025
14 X 11 inches, , oil on vellum paper, 2025
This painting sets a richly colored bouquet against an open landscape, allowing interior and exterior space to merge through expressive paint handling. The flowers are built with thick, sculptural strokes, their whites, reds, and oranges rising from the vessel with physical presence. Painted at the Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, Michigan—a historic artists’ colony associated with the Art Institute of Chicago and generations of modernist experimentation—the work reflects a lineage that values direct observation, material engagement, and expressive freedom. The surrounding ground and trees are rendered in flattened planes of warm reds and cool greens, unifying still life and landscape through color-driven emotion rather than literal description.