It’s obvious to anyone that I enjoy painting landscapes of water. I originally grew up on the sea in Ireland, and on the shores of Lake Huron here in Canada.

This painting represents the lake when only the last ragged shades of daylight are left to define the line where water meets the sky. The heavily rectilinear marks, although they do not trace the actual boundaries, represent the emerging shapes of the constellations- this image is as much about what we impose into the landscape as what is actually there.

The three lighter crossing lines that cut across the sky are the trails of airplanes that fly west across the lake defining another level of imposition and relationship between the viewer and the landscape.

untitled

2004
acrylic on canvas
36x36in

Collection of Carol L. Scott