Eva Lake: Take-Off

Oil on canvas, shown at Augen Gallery in August, 2006. All works 2006, 36 in square:

 

     Warmer        Blanket       Take-Off       Early Evening       Night Ride

 

24 inch square, 2006:

 

 Lavender Field II    the Italian    Orchid II     Deeper Dive

 

Take Off

My goal in painting is to create an experience as opposed to a composition. I treasure an infinite space and would like the paintings to function more like a drink or a drug or what your favorite song does to you.

The phenomena of how light moves I witnessed on a particular night jet boat ride a few years ago. There seemed to be no horizon line; the sky and water were nearly one, a dark almost black. When the boat took off the city lights gyrated manically. This was no landscape but an unforgettable experience I am now translating into paint.

 

Vive Chrome at Augen Gallery in April 2005.

The Richter Scale, 2007

 

Lovelake