Field Near Vaucluse

3 x 12 inches, oil paint on wood panel                                                  Copyright 2009, John A. Brecht, all rights reserved

This is another quick study executed at the Yonce farm in Vaucluse, SC.  Having been raised on Lake Michigan, the horizon and distant vistas have a very deep and meaningful significance in my sensibilities.  There is nothing more conceptually stimulating than the unbroken horizon line between sky and earth.  It is the visual common denominator. While painting open vistas such as above, my mind wonders and then constructs imaginary spaces that are in and amongst and beyond the trees and distant tree lines.  I am painting, but at the same time formulating these imaginary groves and meadows.  I have the most fun when laying in the background.  It often amounts to nothing more than a brush stroke or 2 but it hints to that magical conceptual space of the beyond.

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[Becky Levenson -Smith]

This is a jewel