Water Series

“My work reflects our collective desire for transformation into something ideal and a freeing of the trappings of daily life. In my paintings I seek to create a sense of reprise using the natural world as a large spanning platform: the great expanse and scale with water, the immersion in the silence and slowness of landscapes, the mysterious third of our life we drift away in sleep and recently the universe above. 

Orphaned from the sanctuary of youth we are faced with life’s challenges and the consequences of our choices.   I use our relationship with water as an allegory for refuge, renewal and joy. Often I use the image of a plunge or splash as symbolic of the portal water leads us through.  The bubbles are the exhalation of the past; a letting go.

I believe that even in its ephemeral state, these moments lift us – freeing us from the weight of our world and allow us to connect to something larger than ourselves”. - Eric Zener