Autumn

This painting was created in 2024. It is framed with a 2 inch white linen Larson Juhl liner and a 1 inch silver, 2 in. deep wooden frame. The framed dimensions are 14.25 x 16 in.

"Because of both age and studio size, I find window views and off-deck views to be the nearest I get to outdoor painting. And I’ve made the best of these “View Paintings”. First from the vantage point overlooking the north side of Mount Royal in Montréal and now the views afforded me west and south from a sunny top floor apartment overlooking what I call “The Village”, one street in the trees below me.

I have several views of “The Village" and I’ve painted it many times now. All I have to do these days is consider painting. Luckily, I have these views as I can paint them over and over again much as Cézanne, Monet, Matisse and others painted a single view in all its varieties, spring to winter.

If shapes and spaces, light and dark contrasts, large and small areas are to be considered (and it’s always been my aim, even in my figurative work), then these new paintings have bent over backwards in reaching that. Not only that, but now painting more of "what I feel and less what I see" has become the new mark of what I’m after: “essence, simplicity and flatness”, abstracting, if you like. I have always pushed parameters, and this is the biggest push yet. At 80, what do you have to lose? It’s all part of my philosophy (theory) of art process. Like life itself, true art is a process not a product." - Robert McInnis