Living Air woodcut

The oil on canvas Living Air was painted just before Tom made the edition of Living Air woodcut.

Living Air

I think it was Darwin or was it Coleridge who coined this phrase that encapsulates the intensity of physical action and movement on a cellular level and beyond on the surface of our planet earth. I like this man, I think it’s me, with his rather large pear shaped bottom in red Bermuda shorts looking out to sea from the shores of Denmark. The wood has reached the edge of the shore and the way the leaves and branches arch around the figure to create a tunnel like composition is me imagining Caspar David Friedrich’s Kreidefelsen auf Rügen, 1818. I adore this painting by Friedrich of the artist and his friend and his new bride peering around the undergrowth in front of white chalk cliffs and a glittering sea with accompanying sail boat. Things haven’t changed when we are caught up in the magical experience of looking out to the horizon on a beautiful day. - TH