Mountains & Alpine
High ridgelines, alpine plateaus and thin air over cold stone.
About Mountains & Alpine
A mountain is a problem of scale. Photograph one and it flattens, because a camera gives the far ridge the same crispness as the near one and your eye stops believing the distance. Paint solves it by losing detail on purpose: the far ridges go blue and simple, the near rock keeps its weight.
That is why blue runs through this collection more than any other color, and why it sits next to warm rock rather than against more blue. Alpine light is thin. It picks out one face of a peak and leaves the other in shadow, and the knife handles that split in a single stroke rather than blending across it.
Height reads best when a painting has room above the summit, so these tend to want a portrait format and a wall you can stand back from. A stairwell suits them for exactly that reason. In a low room, the wider sizes work harder than the tall ones.