This is a reproduction of an original oil painting, Red Cornfield. Cornfields are one of the subjects I've done a number of paintings of; I keep seeing them in different ways, and I like their curving and straight rows, which form interesting patterns in the image. My work is concerned with color relationships, and I like to "set up" these relationships by painting an underlayer of a contrasting color, which sometimes is red, in this case paired with cobalt green, another favorite color. The red shows through in many places in the finished painting, because I work not with flat or modeled areas of color, but with dabs and marks of color, which is called 'broken' color. I also like to work with a combination of these color marks and color fields - actually fields of color which are broken up into little units, such as the cornfield in the foreground of the painting, and the green areas further back in space. I guess I'm drawn to cornfields and other rural motifs because I grew up in the country. Cornfields are another example of humans putting their mark on the land, growing things, dividing it up into geometric shapes. This scene is looking toward the campus of Immaculata College in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
