WILLIAM JAMESON
Woodland Textures
Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum
Solo Exhibition - January 15-April 26, 2012
This series of paintings for the Woodland Textures exhibition, based on the landscapes of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and particularly the Southern Highlands, is part of my continued passion for painting the southern landscape.
My interest in "paint" and quite often my subject matter is simply "light" which is most dramatically seen surrounded by darkness. When I hike and climb in the dark creeks and streams of upstate South Carolina, North Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, everywhere I turn, there is a painting. I'm intrigued by the light filtering through the trees, striking the rocks and the rushing water over the rocks. The shadowed areas of the paintings become places for silhouetted shapes, half-lights and half darks; distant light around the turn of the creek or a blue ridge barely seen through the foliage. Like the water, we are and will be forever at the mercy of and under the influence of nature.
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