Ponderosa Patriarch

Hiking in an Escalante slot canyon I ran into this patriarchal ponderosa. I daydreamed of stories the patriarch could tell me spanning hundreds of years.

Layers of color create visual and tactile dimension. The image can be viewed as representational or abstract depending on the viewers’ distance from the painting. At first glance, the style is loose and whimsical, yet the painting yields detail and depth.