Early training and emphasis was figurative, but Moran and Church eventually shifted that to landscape and nature. In the early '90s, emerging digital paint software environments provided the opportunity to create entirely new paint metaphors; paints as discreet, coordinated image databases capable of rendering highly representational paintings of plants, trees and nature. Virtually all of the works here are explorations or culminations of my efforts to develop a new form of paint and painting technique. As with any painting, they started as a blank canvas. They are not manipulated photographs.
The various paintings are created using these unique sets of paints. These original paints are largely co-ordinated arrays of individually painted leaves or flowers. The result is a "foliage paint" that is applied using traditional brush techniques. They can be used to compose, for precision detail or to create derivative foliage cluster paints depicting the common growth patterns of a particular plant species. In other words, like traditional paints, these foliage paints can be mixed create a more complex paint. It's painting with paintings really.
These then are a few of the trees, plants and scenes I have known. Others reflect my interest in forests , foliage and the random patterns of nature.
