Massachusetts Horticultural Society

Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston 26" x 16"

This is one of a suite of paintings of Boston that will be featured in the Elevation exhibition.
Sometimes I think of painting architecture in terms of music. The time signature might be a structural constant but there's a difference between listening to the click of a metronome and getting into the groove.
The structural orderliness of our built world creates just such a challenge and I am conscious of a desire that my paintings dance with asymmetry and synchopation.
I enjoy the conversation between man and nature here; the trunklike columns marching in line, the organic decorations crisply chiselled and laid just so. No unruly branches or stray fronds. This is Horticulture: the art and science of plant cultivation.