Mandy Main

Resonance, Abstract Oil Painting

2023

Artist Comments
This painting combines landscape and abstraction to portray the sound waves beneath the earth's surface as towering columns in shades of blue, green, and purple. The upper portion features a field with the same colors loosely and narrowly, creating the illusion of depth. The horizontal clouds balance the vertical thrust of the underground, resulting in a harmonious and visually captivating composition.

About the Artist
Mandy Main is an art historian and landscape painter based in the Southern California desert. She has long been passionate about 19th Century American landscape paintings, which has been influential in her artistic practice. Mandy works in series, generally three paintings at a time. Her process begins with a vision of a place she has been, but she takes creative liberties with the aesthetic details. The artist is captivated by light and shadow, and strives to instill her work with moody drama through the representation of these elements. Using layers of paint and glazes, Mandy achieves mesmerizing atmospheric depth, encouraging the viewer to gaze and be still.

Words that describe this painting: water, ocean, sea, sky, clouds, fields, vertical, abstract, seascape, oil painting, green

Resonance
Mandy Main
Oil painting on wood
Finished black edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2023
35 in. h x 11.5 in. w x 1.25 in. d
3 lbs. 9 oz.