Corot Study: Creek in Spearfish
2026
Acrylic on linen
22 × 28 in.
Corot Study: Creek in Spearfish grew out of my memory of a small creek encountered while camping in Spearfish, South Dakota. The painting is not a description of that particular place so much as an attempt to recover its atmosphere—the water, vegetation, filtered light, and tangled growth.
The work belongs to my ongoing Corot Study series, paintings shaped by my memory of Corot’s landscapes and their peculiar mixture of observation and invention. Here, translucent washes of green, turquoise, and earth tones create a shifting space, while the dark, looping lines move through it like branches, vines, or fragments of drawing. The landscape remains recognizable, but only barely; the remembered place has become a structure for the painting to wander through.
Corot Study: Creek in Spearfish
2026
Acrylic on linen
22 × 28 in.
Corot Study: Creek in Spearfish grew out of my memory of a small creek encountered while camping in Spearfish, South Dakota. The painting is not a description of that particular place so much as an attempt to recover its atmosphere—the water, vegetation, filtered light, and tangled growth.
The work belongs to my ongoing Corot Study series, paintings shaped by my memory of Corot’s landscapes and their peculiar mixture of observation and invention. Here, translucent washes of green, turquoise, and earth tones create a shifting space, while the dark, looping lines move through it like branches, vines, or fragments of drawing. The landscape remains recognizable, but only barely; the remembered place has become a structure for the painting to wander through.