Gary Truman Erickson has a fascination for seasonal change and the ever-changing forces of nature. He is not interested in illustrating or recording, but rather in translating into a visual statement an emtional experience that nature and land transcends. The ongoing sequence of natural phenomena, whether dramatic or subtle, provides the artist with invariable possibilities for artistic expression.
Unlike Impressionism with its theoretical observations of light and color, Erickson attempts to infuse the quintessence of Baroque and Romantic landscape painting with its insistence on depicting the grandeur, drama and spirituality which nature can invoke. His work favors the simple structure and seemingly random views revealing the poetry and universal truths of the land without calling attention to the specific or facts of the subject.
You won't see Erickson out in a clearing or beside a pond withbrush in hand and canvas before him. Not anymore. "I used to work outside years ago," he says. "Physically and technically it's really it's really hard to do because of the wind and the bugs. It's hard to carry a 5'x8' canvas around outside. I prefer working in the studio."
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