The Road Less Traveled By • Print

The Road Less Traveled By is a thread in my creative tapestry. I set out to employ my value over color skills but challenged myself to add more depth using color fields instead of my signature wash layers. I selected a tight palette and utilized it to carry your gaze in, around, and through. I have also used smaller, deliberately placed petite shapes to assist as well.

I am inspired by the master painters, of course, and some of my choices in this work do lean toward Les Fauves (the wild beasts!). Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, André Derain, and a few others created a short-lived style called Fauvism. They, too, worked with bold colors separated from their representational role and applying paint that speaks to the artist’s hand instead of representing something as it appears in nature.

I decided to title this work after one of my favorite poems: The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost, because I feel like this is my seminal works thus far as it blends all facets of my painting techniques, a convergence. I am choosing to take the road less traveled by, meaning my path. My path is colorful, vivid, solid, joyous, and thought-provoking. You are welcome to come along!