Mark Erickson

The Mercury Series

The brush strokes intertwine and connect and the shapes evolve lyrically upwards, to the heavens, the skies above. The paintings feature bright organic shapes & lines, that hover weightlessly over a field of predominantly black, subtly suggesting figures, objects floating in the dark and words that spread out into the still expanse of space. 

Color & Revision Series

I want viewers to see things, experience a moment in my painting where their imagination can take off in new directions. Whether it's an illusion of depth, something lyrical or the impact of color and shape, I seek to keep the eye moving around the canvas. Collage elements are sometimes added to take the painting into another arena. The need to feel something that may not be there at first glance, but to know it is there is the key.

Malaga

The mystical and magical name of 'Malaga' in Spain, still holds dreams and imaginations of art history. Picasso would be living in Paris beginning his career in painting …. but Spain will always be on his mind…. with conjurings of festivals, bullfights and the heat of the Summer.

Elena Erickson

Expansion in Motion Series

Each painting leads the eye to multiple perspectives and color stimulation, both in hypnotic variations and simple recognizable images. One can view the outlines and silhouettes expanding in a muralistic decoration, as if a landscape seen from a distance. Static energy pulsates off the canvas as the explosive colors dance rhythmically to their own expression. Each individual canvas becomes an interwoven story of color and impact.

Windows In Motion Series

There is a pure energy, intense colors and sunlight shooting through the Windows in Motion Paintings. Like reflections forming when looking out a train window as it passes a myriad of shapes and impressions, creating light shards and images through the cut glass. Or they can be viewed as if through a Cathedral stained glass window, with backlit outlines dancing in the skylights. Impressions entering the mind, creating yet another story line. As this train moves in motion you can look out the window and enjoy the steady flow of images passing.

Mark & Elena Erickson

The Highlands

the setting sun
the image squashed
it's colors slice the light in half
for the time being the painting sits
and waits for the next move,
a shift of color spreads across the palette
as the sun arcs through the sky
the light changes with every minute
and so changes the painting,
if you spend enough time with the paint
you get to know the paint
it becomes an intimate affair
the life of a painting starts when the waking
dream becomes conscious,
and from there the journey is like a ride
down a switchback mountain road
high and low, up and down
it's all part of the journey,
a constant rotation of emotions
the final moment can seem far off
but it's arrival can come sudden
then you move back and stare
and the dream becomes real,
the brushed in the water
the forest and the trees
submerged in a hazy afternoon
dims in the rays of the setting sun.

—Mark & Elena Erickson

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