Truth in Nature – Autumn

Genie Touvell February 18, 2023 2 min read

Autumn

Real truth in Nature

The Last Mowing 12 x 16″ Oil

John is planning for a main solo exhibition at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Artwork titled, “Transcendence: Truth in Character.” In the course of crafting about the paintings for the exhibition catalog, he walks the reader by way of the 4 seasons and the inspiration and worries they convey to the landscape painter.

This 7 days, we preferred to share some of his ideas and paintings about Autumn with you.

“Drop and winter season are my favourite situations of the yr for portray right here. The shades in the Midwest are nothing at all like the stunning and good orange, pink and evergreen shows that I had been made use of to portray in the hardwood and conifer forests of the Hudson Valley. Nor are there blue mountains soaring up to create the great backdrop for any matter. It took me some time to adapt my vision to the subtleties of this midwestern landscape.”

“In my look at, Slide is also the greatest sunlight of the 12 months in our latitude. The light-weight is no for a longer time overhead, but comes in at an angle, increasing the shadow outcomes. Early early morning and again in late afternoon the golden light clothing all the things it touches with heat natural beauty. Prosperous shadows just take on a coolness not existing in the summer time, creating a wonderful shade distinction with the sunlit planet. There are so a lot of topics to paint each and every Tumble that I get rather fired up by it and it is hard at times to just settle down and paint a little something. Character puts all her energy into converting the massive energies collected through the summer into this unbelievable transitional wonder. Every thing changes and nondescript summer season plants all of a sudden develop into star performers as they transform shades or make shiny berries, like buckbrush and winterberry do.”