Rabbit line art view from above series#

Starting with the macro world, and the first paintings executed in the series is Where We Once Were, it is bright, sunny and as the artist noted, the imagery is an “idyllic and nostalgic” look pack at a pre-Covid landscape.

The interrelationships between the paintings fall into three groupings that examine the macro, micro and galactic aspects of the landscape and world around us. A globe in crisis, and change, burning flooding, etc. And it is a new landscape that we stumble about in now. Covid has changed how we can and cannot move through time space and the landscape. Covid narrowed and limited our horizons, shrunk our movement in the world, and now as we stumble out into the world again, a very different world is in place. And, to be more specific, how the last couple of years have totally changed the “landscape”. In a written statement, Watt stated the following about the series, “As I look at these nine paintings, it is pretty clear to me that one of my preoccupations here is landscape: vanishing landscapes, imagined landscapes, changed landscapes. The strong reference to landscape was intentional by the artist. There are also two very long horizontal paintings, each a triptych.

Three of the artworks on vertical diptychs with one panel over the other, thus creating the literal horizon line. Second, each painting has a literal or implied horizon line that immediately evokes landscapes, despite the preponderance of paintings in the vertical orientation. First, the compositions are created by a layering of lines containing lozenge shapes (a recurring shape for the artist) with dynamic colors and juxtapositions to create geometric vectors or swirling spirals. There are several common threads that tie the series together and create a dialogue between pairs of paintings. Laura Watt’s newest series of paintings are presented in her second solo exhibition, Horizon Event, at David Richard Gallery.

Rabbit line art view from above