Dick Mason

Sangre de Cristo Foothills

Red and Fig Tree, 2021 acrylic on canvas 78 47/64 H x 47 1/4 W inches 200 H x 120 W cm The painting by Alexandru Rădvan is about our moments of 'respiro' about the minutes/seconds...

My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...