The Highway Series

This series represents a major new exploration for me in a hard-edged style. The shapes in the landscape are greatly simplified, emphasizing the expanses of land that has been carved out of the wild spaces for agricultural and industrial use.

My obsession with the square format is taking a break for a while (but will pop in for a visit in this series.)

The hard-edge approach is better suited to the studio, where I can tape, and paint, and re-tape and repaint. But these are all based on my own sketches and photographs, including those taken from a moving car. If you saw some lunatic with her camera stuck out of the moon roof on the highway, that might have been me.

My previous landscape work is in these collections: