Horizon Weirding

For a few years now I have been fascinated by how just blue, green and a horizon line form a landscape. We recognise this landscape format immediately. What happens when the green is on the top?

I also love the idea of trying to break the rules of atmospheric perspective, where things fade into the distance. Is it possible to paint landscapes where the horizon comes towards you? I finally got the chance to start working with this idea this summer and my plan was to experiment with isolating different visual elements of the effect of atmospheric perspective- size, texture, color intensity, value and contrast. After creating a couple of pieces with dayglow orange horizons I switched to stripes of complimentary colours. I was also curious about the depth that could be created using the stripes with the horizon line fading into the background, so some of these paintings have "normal" atmospheric perspective.

It turns out that these paintings are about examining the relationships between colours. The complimentary colours dance and change as if the paintings are alive. If you look at a striped section and then at a white section you may see glowing stripes which are caused by simultaneous color contrast. Your eye attempts to dull bright colours by creating a glowing image of the bright object in its complimentary color.

A horizon coming towards me gives me the sense that I have arrived, that the future has become the present. The term "global weirding" describes the strange weather patterns that are occurring as our planet gets increasingly warmer.