When We Met the Horizon

In this piece, I'm playing with the impression that sky and land are interchangeable. It's a game of perception – what looks like a mountain range could be clouds, and that strip of sky might just be a distant plain. I build up countless thin layers of oil glazes, each one slightly different in hue. As light passes through these layers, it scatters and dances, creating an optical illusion of depth that shifts as you move.

There's something profoundly connecting about using earth to depict earth. I make most of my paints from pigments I've sourced from the land itself – russet reds from iron oxides, greens and blues from stone. It's a process that grounds me in the very landscape I'm painting. Each brushstroke carries not just color, but the essence of the earth it represents.

When you look at this, I hope you'll feel the vastness of our world distilled into simple forms and colors. It's an invitation to see the extraordinary in the ordinary, to find landscapes in the sky and skies in the land. It's about reconnecting with the raw beauty of our planet, one layer of earthen paint at a time.