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I began doing what I often call “Zenscapes” in 2006 in France where we have farmhouse in the Loire Valley. Hitherto I had been doing mostly paintings which were categorized as abstract expressionist “Action Paintings” – mostly large canvases with all-over design and no use of classical perspective. They were calculated to evoke a sense of drama and therefore of conflict. I quite suddenly decided I wanted to do work which evoked a sense of peace. To accomplish this I needed to create them with a new method a
By 2006 I had become a devotee and practitioner of Zen Meditation. I had retired as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Jacksonville University in 2005 and was experiencing inner peace in the peaceful surroundings of the Loire Valley. I decided to paint landscapes in a minimalist style to try to capture the special light of the region and invite the viewer to share the sense of peace I got when doing them by walking into them. I wanted them to be “seeds of contemplation,” providing opportunities for viewers