STAINTINGS: Uniquely characteristic wood cuts with natural grain patterns enhanced by dyeing and other painting techniques to create landscape imagery. Each piece is finished with an original hardwood frame.
STAINTING 70 *SOLD*
MORE ABOUT STAINTINGS FROM THE ARTIST
With Staintings, the material informs the concept, and living daily life informs the creative process.
Most of the wood used to make Staintings and their frames comes from off-cuts and scrap pieces destined for the landfill. This is up-cycled art.
Once, on a job site, I noticed that the contoured wood grain on a scrap of plywood looked like the silhouette of the Olympic Mountains at dusk. I kept it from the trash pile and brought it to my studio where I enhanced the mountain and sky imagery with sunset sky orange and majestic mountain purple. I painted some tree silhouettes and that was Stainting # 1. Now I automatically scan every piece of wood I see for a wood grain horizon line.
The experience of pareidolia, such as seeing a bunny in a puffy cloud, or the windows and doors on a house as a face, is a common human experience. I bring attention to this in the wood-grain landscapes I see, and it draws the viewer in as they relate to my seeing the thing that is and isn’t there.
The Staintings incorporate my interest in Earth’s place in the solar system via astronomical moon and planet skyscapes. They also show my fascination with the blackness of tree silhouettes at dusk in the Pacific Northwest, each having a unique gesture as they frame a portion of the sky.
My time working in the fine art services industry and my experience as a professional house painter have equipped me in two ways to create Staintings. The first is through the expertise in painting and woodworking techniques I have acquired. The second is through the availability of salvaged scrap materials to up-cycle into artwork, which is a valuable consideration for me. The frames are also made from scrap wood.
STAINTINGS ARCHIVE
The Gallery below depicts a wide selection of STAINTINGS I have produced, to show the variety of styles and finishes I have explored and developed.
