Robert Burridge - Landscape Painting Collage

This painting started as a daily warmup exercise - my goal was to create a series of "elusive landscapes" based on the surrounding coastline of bays and wetlands in California, close to my home. I chose a horizontal composition and limited palette. 

To make a more "geographic and topographic" statement, I embedded collage materials in the gesso and paint to give a rippling effect - like viewing the landscape from near space, with the earth's curvature and mountain ranges clearly visible.

Original acrylic painting and collage on paper, 10x10 - $275 + $20 (shipping & handling)

Burridge - Here It Comes

I live in California, on the central coast - four hours south of San Francisco and four hours north of Los Angeles. I have started a new series of inspired by the wildfires that have gripped the state. Even though the fire in Big Sur to the north and another in Goleta, south of us don't pose a threat to our area, we have smokey skies, vivid sunrises and blazing sunsets. It is a terrible beauty, to be sure - powerful, threatening and alive, all at the same time.

Original 10x10, acrylic on Fabriano Watercolor paper. Unframed. Matted and bagged. $275 plus $25 shipping.