The sun was out today in proper spring fashion and it brought out the great simple beauty we have all around us. I spent most of the day inside painting, but I did a couple of jobs outside and even in those few moments the nature of nature, so to speak, was apparent and abundant in the warm light. The flowers were active, the grass, swaying and slowly growing. The birds were rocking it all day, what it would be to know the meaning of their songs the way they do! So many things open their eyes when the green finally sets itself into play for summer.
As a painter, I am drawn to the contrasts of color through composition that can be employed while observing any aspect of reality. It is a theory, maybe, that every visual point of view has the capacity for profound composition. Within every grouping of grass and dirt and every passing cloud pattern, every leaf on each branch, an Artist can find moments and rhythms to form a view beyond the sum of its parts. It is a great distinction between Art inspired by nature and nature itself.
Abstract Art is always connected to nature in that nature has color and form and so does abstract painting, and by color and form I include non-color and non-form. Perhaps it is my exuberance for the power of color so brilliantly displayed in the sunny spring, perhaps I am generalizing from my own perspective, but the color of nature, pure and brilliant, must exist somewhere in the subconscious of every Artist. Even an Artist whose nature is a concrete city must see some greens growing, clouds and dark sky goings-on, nature’s color is there.
I am grateful for the colors of nature even seen from my humble yard and the surrounding trees and flora. I encourage others to try to see little perfect moments of composition or of simple beauty in whatever nature is available. There is always something there to witness and be thankful for…