NATURE SERIES | Daniel Anderson Art

DANIEL ANDERSON

NATURE SERIES

Abstract movements and contortions of natural forms and their external elements and energies interact.

Eagle. 2013

Oil on canvas
60" x 48"

A bald eagle's powerful, expansive form interacts with natural forces in the sky, displacing clouds amidst its flailing wings. Symbolic messages of resilience, perseverance, strength, resolve - even the evolution of time and re-growth - are expressed. The bald eagle, in it's iconic essence, represents a rebounding America...the beautiful.

Flowers XYZ, 2013

Oil on canvas
60" x 48"

Anderson decodes the complex shapes of the roses only to reconstruct them in his own unique way, creating a painting that is beautiful, intricate and full of life.

Flowers XYZ II. 2013

Oil on canvas
60" x 48"

The second of a two part series, 'Flowers XYZ II' conveys intense movements, materialistic breakdowns and expansions of floral forms. The artist's 'supreme abstraction' of the flower petals are in earlier, less expansive forms than the first 'Flowers XYZ' work. Additionally, this work also has a surrealistic element: a flower forming (or dissipating, depending how you see it) in "thin air" - natural forces of metaphysical creation.

FLOWERS XYZ I, II - NATURE SERIES (OILS)

Roses. 2012

Oil on canvas
40" x 30"

Anderson de-constructs and reassembles the angular, almost cubist rose petals and leaves, creating a sense of movement in an otherwise still object. It is up to the viewer to decide in which direction (in or out) the energy flows.

'Tree-scape'
oil on canvas
72" x 36"
2011

Trees, by their very nature, are irregular. No two in the world alike. From twisted roots, their contorted forms burst out of the earth, leading to marvelous paths of leaved/leave-less extensions. The landscape and terrain of Australia is nothing short of extraordinary, from outback terrain, exquisite gardens and cliffs to urban settings and contemporary architecture.
The work conveys the contortion and conformity of the irregular tree limbs with their external natural forces.

'Sunken Forest'
14" x 22"
oil on canvas
2011

As land eroded and a forest sunk while the water level rose, there remained a seasonal 'forest in the water'. Depicted in this painting is the dry season in which the trees were barren and desolate on parched earth - some unable to survive the Australian summer - intermittently under water at different times of the year per the rainfall.

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