Pablo Fernandez Jr

Light Shining Through Nature

2023

David Uessem The Beauty of New Beginnings, 2024 Signed by the artist Oil on canvas, framed 61 x 75 inches This piece is unique. This piece is currently on display at Art Angels Los ...

Flore The Soul, 2022 60 x 60 inches Acrylic on canvas This piece is unique Signed by artist Framed Currently on display at Art Angels Los Angeles

"No Escape from Nature" depicts an early morning walk through the woods. Dappled sunlight makes this scene quite tranquil. As a painter, I examine how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. The portrayal of light helps a painting to convey the atmosphere and mood of a scene, and is much of what enables a painting to convey depth and realism. Our perception of lighting features occurs largely through pathways in the brain that carry only black and white information, pathways which are distinct from areas that encode the colors and details we use to delineate specific objects. By painting in grayscale, I try to interact specifically with this region of our visual system, with the hope of conveying some of the spaciousness and emotional significance that light can imbue on scenes. Light, whether as the crisp contrast of a back-lit forest or the gray haze of an industrial landscape, is what defines a scene. Its power to communicate the feel of a place is the principle subject of my paintings. The Blue Azul Collection...