"quadriptych" (four parts)

This piece came together as I was analyzing 4 of my smaller paintings. They were unrelated visually. My preference is to work large and these smaller pieces made me restless. If I had a larger studio and a larger vehicle to transport my work, I would work massively large. Scale is important element of a successful aRtwork. So I decided to link them. The color palette I chose to work with was neutral greens which immediately implies a landscape. Not necessarily my intention at the time - i just needed to wrestle with some paint. Green is a color I enjoy. I switched from a brush to a palette knife to add the large white swaths. White is a unifying "color" in a painting - perhaps because it is "spiritual." After I dabbled a little blue into it, and after switching the orientation of the canvas around, I found one that worked (although the viewer may choose to mix it up) and proceeded to unify the piece by adding more brushwork and large slabs of color. It came to resemble a waterfall: The darker colors indicating a "cave" behind the white water falling vertically, the lighter colors beneath applied horizontally suggest a pool of water.
Therefore the title. Glad I didn't start out intending to paint a waterfall: It surely would not have turned out as successful.
Paint what I feel not what I see. Otherwise I would write a poem or take a photograph.

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." - Tupac Shakur

Gladly sold to super friends who were visiting from back east. We had a lovely time wine-tasting at Paradise Ridge afterward.

Photographed by Joe McDonald, Digital Grange Studios, Petaluma, CA