STAINTINGS:
Staintings are landscape art where natural wood grain patterns suggest the landscape contours. The wood surface is enhanced by dyeing and other painting techniques to create the landscape imagery. Each piece is finished with an original hardwood frame.
STAINTING 70 *SOLD*
ARTIST STATEMENT: STAINTINGS
pareidolia (n) - the imagined perception of a recognizable image or meaningful pattern from a random stimulus.
This term describes the moment when I first saw a landscape horizon line in the woodgrain pattern on a scrap of plywood. The grain resembled ‘The Brothers’ in the Olympic Mountain silhouette at dusk, as I had seen across the Salish Sea from many western views in Seattle. I brought that wood scrap back to my studio where I enhanced the wood grain mountain image by staining with color. I added tree silhouettes, and the finished artwork became STAINTING No. 1. Now I automatically scan every piece of wood I see for a wood grain horizon line. STAINTINGS encourage that spark of creativity that a person can practice in their own work, and revitalize their own way of seeing the world with a fresh perspective. As I continue with this series, I aspire to draw the viewer in as they relate to the shared humanity of seeing the thing that is and isn’t there.
STAINTINGS incorporate my interest in Earth’s place in the solar system via astronomical moon and planet skyscapes. They also show my fascination with the blackness of tree silhouettes at dusk in the Pacific Northwest, each having a unique gesture as they frame a portion of the sky.
Most of the wood used to make Staintings and their frames comes from off-cuts and scrap pieces destined for the landfill. This is up-cycled art.
STAINTINGS ARCHIVE
The Gallery below depicts a wide selection of STAINTINGS I have produced, to show the variety of styles and finishes I have explored and developed. (These are all **SOLD**, regardless of red dot or not)
