Terrain, oil on canvas, 32 x 32 inches, © 2011 Diane McGregor
Terrain, detail
Terrain, detailMy oil paintings are minimalist meditations on the infinite space and light of the vast desert regions of the American Southwest. Using the discipline and repetition of the grid, these process-driven abstractions explore ideas of order and randomness in nature and the landscape. Painterly gestures and fugitive forms float within the stillness of the grid. Foreground and background are meticulously woven together onto the painting's intricate surface. Cumulative and reductive, organic and geometric, revealed and concealed, fixed and mutable -- the elements of the composition are in constant flux toward a state of equilibrium and balance.
Terrain II, oil on canvas, 32 x 32 inches, © 2011 Diane McGregor
Terrain II, detail
Terrain II, detail