In September 2023, after ten years of painting floral compositions,  I began experimenting with a  very different approach to oil painting, and began a series of “invented” expressive and (not quite) tonal landscape compositions. The compositions are unplanned, allowing the natural motivity of the oil medium and properties of the brushes to suggest, in an intuitive way, the shapes and textures of the landscape and the direction of the work.  The  palette is restricted to  a handful of colors, and tools include inexpensive  hardware store brushes, a palette knife, a simple non-toxic medium (Refined Linseed Oil), paper towels, cotton rags and my fingers. Like much great art, the paintings are a combination of fact and fiction, hard work and technical competence.