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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2022
Rain Forest
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
The green that earned its rain — atmospheric painting as the inside of a forest after the sky has delivered on its promise.
Rain Forest (2022) is a layered immersion into life at its most vibrant and chaotic. This 98.4 x 76.7 inch acrylic painting, part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, invites the viewer into a dense, breathing world of texture, color, and vitality.
Rather than depict a forest literally, I sought to evoke its pulse — the rhythm of moisture, decay, bloom, and the unseen life between layers. Vertical drips and bursts of green, ochre, indigo, and dark earth form a visual ecosystem where boundaries dissolve and everything seems to grow at once.
The painting was made in a state of sensory surrender. With each layer, I imagined light filtering through a jungle canopy, or water evaporating off soil. There’s no clear path. You wander. You get lost. And in that disorientation, something new begins to grow.
In both spirit and method, Rain Forest recalls the immersive energy of Joan Snyder, whose painterly surfaces pulse with organic density and ritual. Like Snyder, I see abstraction as a living field — something wild and rooted, not sterile or conceptual.
There’s no single focal point in this work. It sprawls. It teems. It breathes. The canvas holds space for multiplicity — life layered upon life, brushstroke upon brushstroke.
As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, Rain Forest is a celebration of sensory overwhelm and ecological presence. A painting not to be read, but to be entered.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 10 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 10 ft or more
- Light
- Natural light transforms this work — morning and evening light read differently
- Daylight
- Forest green and viridian hold steady near glass and sit naturally with a garden view. The values are close, though, so hard direct sun turns the canopy into a single green; diffused light keeps its depth.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Rain Forest earns its place here completely: at six by eight feet it commands without crowding, and the layered greens, from earthy understory to viridian canopy, give a living room the slow, breathing quality that makes people linger rather than pass through.
Bedroom 4/5
Four points rather than five because the awe Rain Forest asks for is wakeful and a little vertiginous, but for a bedroom where the owner wants to feel transported rather than soothed, the layered greens and low mood score still allow rest.
Details
- Size
- 6 × 8 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Finish
- Epoxy over acrylic. The resin lifts the color off the canvas and holds it forward, so the surface deepens as the light moves across the room.
- Year
- 2022
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Deep Green · Earthy Green · Forest Green · Viridian
- Weight
- About 65 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Spur
- Texture2
- Form2
- Colour range3
- Palette4.8
- Contrast1.8
- Abstraction Quotient1
