Into the Green

*I encourage you to take in the work from your own perspective. You don't have to read my interpretation of this painting to enjoy it*

One of the most enjoyable parts of immersing yourself in nature is, for me, that sensation of envelopment. Being isolated from the routinized blur of modern life, and feeling as though your senses are filled, your body encased and held by the world around you. I usually pursue this in my works of the ocean. But in Tasmania there was an eerie and beautiful similarity in the density and presence of the forests, to the world underwater. I couldn't help but to see the underside of the ocean's surface, as I looked up at the shifting light between leaves, at the skin of shadow and light between the world above and below. To replicate this impression, I used techniques I had previously reserved for water to depict the underside of the canopy.