Salmon Stump (with Moss)
Salmon Stump (with Moss); R Williamson; wood scraps, plywood, brads, acrylic; 36” tall x 30” wide x 1.25” deep; 2/26
The latest in my series of tree stumps. The most fanciful to date, I started with the idea of working in some outrageous shade of pink. Something not found in nature.Ended up morphing more towards peachy/brown pink, closer to the color of some salmon. So while I was looking to do something totally inappropriate, it still came out somewhat appropriate. Must be a strong tendency.
As much as anything it’s really an color exercise using the pink/green/grey combo that I saw so often in many of the Moghul court paintings at Seattle Asian Art Museum show of some years ago, ‘The Garden of the Cosmos’. Even the color of the moss is probably a little conservative. In the forest at this time of year, late winter, the tree mosses are such bright chartreuse greens that they seem to be electric.
This will be hanging first in my upcoming little show (as yet untitled) at Lighthouse Roasters, starting on Monday March 2 and running for the month of March.
Salmon Stump (with Moss); R Williamson; wood scraps, plywood, brads, acrylic; 36” tall x 30” wide x 1.25” deep; 2/26