Plein-Aired Histories
A more research-based approach to painting on-site (in the same manner as Cumulative Nurture series) where I select locations with historical/cultural significance in order to connect to a place as it is now while pointing back to often lost histories and people who inhabited them- often these works are presented with the researched history of each site.
To read more about the Georgia-based “Plein-Aired Histories” series, go to this LINK.
Plein-Aired Histories: Farmers Street Cemetery (Newnan, GA) 2021, 4' x 9'
work in progress: central panel of Farmers Street Cemetery (Newnan, GA) 2021
Plein-Aired Histories: Fallen (triptych 3'x9')
Fallen Witness Tree (36" x 48"), 2021
Plein-Aired Histories: Gordon-Banks Path #1 (Cotton Mill Estate) 30" x 24", 2021
DETAIL of Plein-Aired Histories: Gordon-Banks Path #1
Plein-Aired Histories: Gordon-Banks Path #2 (Cotton Mill Estate) 30" x 24", 2021
Plein-Aired Histories: Caution, Brown's Mill Battlefield (a Confederate Battle Grounds under Coweta County Parks and recreation Department). (36" x 48"), 2021
Above is a local artist's collaged-style painting that incorporates parts of a Land Lotto Map that resulted from the 1825 "Treaty of Indian Springs" by a lo0cal artist in Newnan Georgia. In the middle it shows the parcel of land that was "redistributed" (from the indigenous Creek Indians) via a lottery and given to white settlers (in this case, J.B. Harding in Feb 3, 1827) as part of the South Line Drawing in Coweta County, Georgia.)
State of Florida UnControlled Burn. (diptych) 48" x 72", 2019
State Of Florida: Fuego (48" x 36") 2020