These oil paintings are one of those things that you look back at and see the future.
These are pre-horizons. Pre-Lake Michigan series. Pre-abstraction. Pre-bridges and river paintings! In fact, I created these paintings when I first started experimenting with seascapes and abstraction generally - at the time my work was still quite colourful, very impressionist and painterly, and still contained objects (boats, piers, bouys, statues, etc). Figures, portraits and Scottish landscapes were my main output. I hadn't yet focused mainly on water as my subject matter and I certainly hadn't simplified anything down to something as simple as just a horizon line yet.
Painted sitting with my wooden Russian easel and oil paints (and are mainly knife-work too) on the lakefront during a Chicago visit - in winter! These paintings are a somewhat spooky prediction of things to come and clear sign of how much Lake Michigan and my home has influenced all my work.
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Although you call it your early beginnings, I absolutely love these paintings. The atmosphere in them is so tactile,the viewer finds himself submerged in those misty sprays. It reminds me very much of a "Sea-Ocean Project" that took place in Odessa last year. 5 Ukranian artists led by Ukranian artist Tatyana Binovskaya painted large canvasses in Odessa Harbour (at night)for 4 days.
I agree with Marie. A beautiful collection of work. The top right painting really grabbed a hold on me.
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