Corot Studies: A Small Boxed Edition

I’ve been working on a new series of iPad studies that began after seeing a group of small Corot landscapes at the Frick. They were modest in scale, but they stayed with me: quiet, atmospheric, restrained, and deeply felt. Not dramatic in any obvious way, but full of weather, memory, and emotional space.

These new works are not copies of Corot. They are responses. Conversations, maybe. Small acts of looking and re-looking. I think of them as field notes: portable studies made in the space between observation, memory, and imagination.

I’m now creating a very small boxed edition of these Corot Studies. Each set will include six archival pigment prints, housed in an archival portfolio box. The edition will be limited to five complete boxed sets.

The first two prints are finished, and I’m very happy with how they’re coming together. There is something important about seeing them become physical objects. On the iPad, they exist as light. Printed, they become paper, ink, surface, edge, border, touch. They slow down. They ask to be held and looked at differently.

These studies are also part of something larger that is beginning to unfold in the studio. I can’t announce the full project yet, but I can say that these small works are helping me think toward a much more ambitious group of paintings. They are a way of searching before the larger work arrives.

That relationship matters to me. The small digital study is not simply a sketch for something bigger. It has its own presence, its own weather. But it also carries energy forward. It helps me ask questions about landscape, atmosphere, structure, scale, and the strange emotional charge that can live inside a painted space.

For now, I’m enjoying the intimacy of the box. Six prints gathered together. A small archive. A portable landscape. A set of clues.

More soon.