My artmaking process explores the fundamental elements of nature—color, form, movement, and light. I often begin by isolating colors from field sketches and photographs of a particular place, building reductive color fields that invite viewers to experience landscape through color.​

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Working in layers, I build the surface of my canvas using a mixture of oil and beeswax, adjusting the viscosity of the beeswax to control the density of the paint and create a sense of movement, texture, and spatial ambiguity. The rich tactile surface suggests atmosphere, depth, and memory without relying on recognizable imagery. In the Landform series I use the idea of a storyboard—a series of vignettes and random marks, on individual panels, to convey the textures and forms of nature.

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​The process is meditative and spontaneous, often yielding unexpected passages of color and surface. Beeswax removes the natural sheen of oil paint, creating a soft, matte surface that heightens the viewer’s experience of the raw emotion of pure color.​

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Landscape is a universal language—both intimate and vast, often holding awe and wonder, and intimacy at once. Multiple-panel paintings and prints, whose origins trace back to Renaissance altarpieces provides an organizing structure for my work enabling me to explore these relationships.

 

Five decades of architectural practice www.kleinrockstudio.com provides structure and discipline to my organic artmaking process—the inevitable tension between structure and spontaneity fuels my creative process.

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