Linda Logan
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- Send Landscape 1 by Linda Logan
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- Send Landscape 5 by Linda Logan
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- Send Landscape 8 by Linda Logan
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- Send Landscape 14 by Linda Logan
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- Send Landscape 16 by Linda Logan
About Linda:
Trained as a geographer, I have long been fascinated by the earth’s landscapes–rivers, mountains, lakes, as well as drumlins, ox-bows, and moraines–formed by weathering, fluvial, glacial, or hillslope processes. The resultant geomorphology–literally, the shape of the earth–as it rises and falls along the earth’s crust, has captured the imagination of landscape artists for centuries. Artists have painted landscapes in myriad ways not just through their personal lenses, but the “lenses” of his or her times, as well. There are landscapes depicted in precise detail by 17th century Dutch artists, classical landscape paintings of Claude Lorraine in the 18th century, naturalistic landscapes of Constable in the 18th century, Turner’s romantic landscapes in the 19th century, and O’Keefe’s landscape abstractions of the 20th century.
Though my “Landscape” series, obviously, shares more with later artists, they are not abstract to the point of being unintelligible. For example, the predominance of the color green refers to the living nature of landscapes, juxtaposed in an era when many landscapes are in peril of extinction through soil erosion, denudation, landslides, insufficient coastal protections, river controls, etc. Second, the viewer may notice there are two perspectives evident here: images that seem to be viewed from above (e.g., # 5, 6, 24) and images that place the viewer on the same plane as the landscape (e.g., # 12, 17,19). This dual perspective may evoke Genesis and the Creation wherein the earth was created out of chaos (from above) and then had man placed (on the plane of the earth) to act as a steward for that land. Finally, and most importantly, many images (e.g., # 2, 7, 23) have paint that has been thinned with turpentine and allowed to drip down the canvas, which alludes to the steady dripping of water that, over time, mobilizes sediment, erodes mountains, flattens terrain, and, like the hands of a clock writ large over the land, changes the face of the earth.
