LandE scape
Joanne Gravelin
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
photographs are the first step towards a final art piece . What I like is the capturing of a pure moment and the mix of sublime landscape with road side scenery . From there I will spend time sketching and drawing from memory and from certain photos that have really struck me . When I start a painting it is usually from a drawing or photo reference , but it ’ s never an exact copy because what i ’ m interested in is capturing a feeling and an essence of a place . The objective is not to say , “ this was a painting of the highway in Oregon ” the point is the moment on the road and the moment of travel . I want all my scenes to be familiar , yet unknown . My hope is that any viewers , no matter how much they travel , will be able to see my work and feel a connection and know the overall sense of the place .
With there being so much build up of the traveling and documenting my style of painting and drawing is somewhat fast . It ’ s pretty normal for me to start a painting in the afternoon and finish it a few hours later before I go to bed . The quickness of the paintings almost reflects that snap of the camera . I get down what I want out of the paintings and when it ’ s right its done . I hardly ever go back to rework something once I ’ ve decided it ’ s complete .
What has at once captured our attention of the body of works that we have selected for this special edition of and that our readers have already started to admire in the introductory pages of this article is the way you provided the visual results of your analysis with
: while walking our readers through of this body of works would you shed light to your main sources of inspiration ? In particular , why did you choose to center your imagery on these aspect of contemporary landscape ?
As I touched on in the last question , my main