RECENT LANDSCAPES: GLADE SERIES

Since moving to Northern Colorado from Southeast Ohio in 2016, I have tried to understand my new vastly different environment.  Rather than paint the remote, sublime grandeur of the high mountains, the close landscape around me along the Front Range of Northern Colorado has become my center of interest. Here water use is a major issue.  The proposed NISP Glade Reservoir near Fort Collins is a project that offers me the subject matter to examine the ethical and practical issues involved, the connection between nature and culture  The Glade Valley may be under 280 feet of water soon so my images are a form of pre-nostalgia.

The paintings of Soapstone Prairie Natural Area, a vast protected area near the Wyoming boarder, is essentially an ancient undeveloped landscape and thus becomes a poignant contrast to the threatened landscape of the Glade Valley.