Slowly the evening changes into the clothes
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you look: and two worlds grow separate from you,
one ascending to heaven, another, that falls
and leave you, belonging not wholly to either one,
not quite as dark as the house that remains silent,
not quite as certainly sworn to eternity
as that which becomes star each night and rises—
and leave you to disentangle your life
with all its immensity and fear and great ripening,
so that, all but bounded, all but understood,
it is by turns stone in you and star..Rainer Maria Rilke

These days I have been reflecting on the Impressionist painters and the Masters like Turner who went before and greatly influenced them…
I decided to create a number of very small works that would evoke those incredible painters without actually imitating any particular painting..this one is meant to evoke the works of J.M.W Turner…

This painting is very small…about 2×3 inches…it is painted on a rag paper that is so highly sized it actually resists the paint…the painting had to be done a la prima, as adding more paint removes the first layer..

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