N ERICKSEN • ART: Japanese Forest

Collection of the artist

I've never been to Japan—the closest I've come is Hong Kong. A granddaughter, however, has a young Japanese man as a significant other, and she went to Japan to meet his parents. This is my interpretation of an image that she took and posted. I like the depth of the image, and the abstraction of the flowers in the foreground. It invited me into another world, and took me on a trip of exploration from which I returned with this image.

Artistic Statement

What I see is the culmination of all that I have seen. As a result, there is a filter that I place between the scene and the viewer—a painting. It becomes a unique interpretation of my observation, ability, and sensitivity to the person, place, or thing. In rendering an observation I am stricken that objects are most beautiful ephemerally at a specific moment in time.

While I paint many things, landscape is my passion. The beauty of nature and its infinite variety is compelling. As I paint, there is a time when I control the painting, but there comes a time in the process when the subject emerges from the recesses of the canvas and then the painting has needs and wants. As I become the instrument of unveiling it, my painting becomes my battle ground. The ecstasy of painting comes as I participate in the release of what has drawn me to the subject in the first place.

The result is always beautiful to me and perhaps has a charm for others.

Japanese Forest

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