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STATEMENT OF WORK
The presented body of work was completed from 2020 to 2023.
During the covid period I was mostly focused outside of myself
and working as an observationist painter. My interest in landscape
as a readily available subject stems from my long held naturalist
perspective of representing nature both advocationally and
pictorially especially now in the face of climate collapse.
Coming lately from a photographic background of geometric
formalism my locations are carefully compositionally chosen from
environmentally protected areas, like the New York water shed,
to historic location/scenes in the Hudson Valley, to coastal Maine,
to green spaces in Berlin all of which are part of my annual
location rotation. Following 15 years working in the UN exhibition
department, I felt the need to revert to analog painting. Both nature
and paint reveal their quiet messages to those that are able to
hear and see. Each painting has a story of a documented moment
of exploration and a concentrated meditational event. Paintings
are done in plein air, alla prima, on location, all at once.
My intension with this body of work is to stir one’s feelings about
nature in a deeper way, in an urgent shift of attention.
Stylistically my current work is on the impressionist/expressionist
continuum.
Influences among others: Albert Marquet, Gabriele Münter,
Die Brücke, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fairfield Porter, David Hockney,
Lois Dodd, Maurice de Vlaminck, Marsden Hartly
2023 also saw my work curated into:
New York White Column Artist Registry
Connecticut Audubon Society Residency, Exhibition and Catalogue
BLUE ROOM, group exhibition in Berlin Germany
IG: ThomasFuhs
thomasfuhs.com