Eden's Dawn

As this painting progressed, the abstraction began to look more and more like a garden to me; a beautifully vibrant and rather untamed garden.  I felt a sense of motion and a bubbling energetic life emerging.  Jewel tones insisted on their brilliance, greens required variegated variety, and an unexpected roiling of color began to unfold from above.  

No one knows, of course, what the imagination or hand of God brought into existence at the formation of the first garden. We can imagine, though.  Was it a tidy, orderly formal garden? Or was it something more wild and free, tumbling with abundance, extravagant in color, bursting with energetic life…. beautiful and good, yet untamed and filled with possibilities? 

This painting explores that question using color and brush stroke, with an unconventionally constructed canvas.  Experience an idea of Eden’s Dawn.

This painting is painted around the sides. Framing is not suggested or quoted.
The canvas is constructed of several pieces, with unfinished edges and fraying that becomes part of the composition.
The hand constructed canvas was primed and gessoed prior to painting in oil paints.

Details are seen below:
Right side of the painting and side view