Tonalist Moon
email: idwyatt@icloud.com
Mobile Text or Call: (415) 350-5991
Studio: 100 Coombs St Napa
Mail: 1800 Atrium Pkwy Apt 427 Napa CA 94559
Mobile Text or Call: (415) 350-5991
Studio: 100 Coombs St Napa
Mail: 1800 Atrium Pkwy Apt 427 Napa CA 94559
My hair has grown whiter and whiter, the paintings have become smaller and darker. I am inexplicably drawn to the landscape after years of colorful abstraction. Mysterious, foreboding - is the light fading or is it the dawn of a new day?
This series of more than 60 small, moody, monochromatic paintings on wood panel can be seen as a meditation on loss. The landscapes, real or imagined, emerge from my subconscious with a story, sometimes optimistic but more often on the dark side.
The unprimed wood panels are stained with a wash of diluted carbon black acrylic. The wood absorbs the paint stain, creating velvety black passages, while the grain resists the wash, creating delicate transparent waves.
A word about the moon paintings. When I have visitors to the studio I notice people make a bee line for a moon painting tucked away in the corner. Perhaps considered a trite image, I have begun to think there is more to its appeal, so far away and mysterious. A beacon of light in a dark sky, it still has the power to fill us with wonder. And, again, there is the dichotomy of dark and light, yin and yang, that is evident in many of these pieces.
This series of more than 60 small, moody, monochromatic paintings on wood panel can be seen as a meditation on loss. The landscapes, real or imagined, emerge from my subconscious with a story, sometimes optimistic but more often on the dark side.
The unprimed wood panels are stained with a wash of diluted carbon black acrylic. The wood absorbs the paint stain, creating velvety black passages, while the grain resists the wash, creating delicate transparent waves.
A word about the moon paintings. When I have visitors to the studio I notice people make a bee line for a moon painting tucked away in the corner. Perhaps considered a trite image, I have begun to think there is more to its appeal, so far away and mysterious. A beacon of light in a dark sky, it still has the power to fill us with wonder. And, again, there is the dichotomy of dark and light, yin and yang, that is evident in many of these pieces.
