Face to Face (2023) Nature

Face to Face (2023) NatureOil on canvas60 x 40 in Dozens of faces collide, overlap, and press toward the surface, each captured mid expression joy, rage, mockery, awe, boredom, disbelief. No single voice dominates; instead, the crowd becomes a single living organism made of conflicting emotions. The painting holds the overwhelming experience of being surrounded, seen, and scrutinized all at once. ProvenanceArtists Studio

The falls churn and roar while vultures ride thermals overhead

Painted at the moment when the ice begins to fracture and the river forces its way back into motion

A study of late-season stillness on the river

but nothing essential has changed

Wind bends the trees at the old train station while the mountains rise like a second sky behind it all

Cool light skims across frozen plates while deep currents flare with rust and violet

and mountains pooling together in the still water

The landscape is fractured into planes of violet

their movement echoing the pulse of the rainforest itself

The saturated purples and blues around her heighten the sense of an inner world—one where music becomes both refuge and self-expression

The painting captures the thin line separating survival from disaster in the northern wilderness

The scene collapses time — the living and the legendary sharing the same water — suggesting that history isn’t past