'Bush Is NS' acryl on canvas 4'X5'

a painting from recent trip reworked last week

night time rock lake....acrylic and mixed media , canvas 36:X48"

mixed media march2010

back to gouache, silkscreeen , block printing roots
squeeges, stenciles, blocks, rollers, graphite, acrylics........

landscape painting revival

There seems to be a strong revival of landscape painting as an innovative genre.

Landscape painting has never disappeared, in fact the last decade’s international super-artstar, Peter Doig, can be considered a figurative landscape painter and painters such as John Hartman have kept the flag flying healthfully at home.

The concept that ‘painting is dead’ and that landscape offered the painter little to seriously deal with, was prevalent not long ago.

It is hard to identify a thread or movement that defines the creative explosion of the past few years and that of the present. There is however, a sense of optimism and future that wasn’t so apparent ten years ago. This may be attributed to liberating factors that disregard older agendas.

Landscape..I include in landscape the daily landscape of our lives as well as the more familiar romantic subjects. Landscape seems to deal with the question of interpreting reality. Optical images are projected onto our retinas. The painter deals with visible events and somewhere between the optical projection and the inward and psychological processes, pops out art.

The place that this artistic image arrives at can be quite distant from the optical image. It

might be a place not so much about representation as revealing something meaningful about our inwardness.

rod prouse art

new work on the go