"Umstead Mystery, 2019" is a revisit to an older abstract painting that has evolved through the years. I originally painted it in 2005 and it went to live in our Middleton, MA, office for over a decade. When that office closed, it came back to me and I felt it needed to be something else. I changed it to a vertical orientation and added more depth to the surface but left it entirely abstract at that time (2016). It has not been placed since then so I recently pulled it from our bins and spent some time with it. I decided by adding minimal content and leaving much of it undefined, it could become a subtle and mysterious landscape. The nearby Umstead Park lends me endless inspiration with its natural scenes full of dappled light, winding paths and creeks, and warm textural foliage.
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