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Eric Westbrook

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  • April 30, 2014

About Me

ARTIST STATEMENT

My landscape paintings depict what I call urban nature.

eric westbrook illustratorI believe that our lives are enriched by a heightened appreciation for our environment, and in a new awareness of natural forces, even in our most densely populated urban areas. The paintings are set in places that are suffused with the presence of both man and nature. I seek to explore the margins where these two forces meet, with the result that suddenly these little-noticed corners of the landscape assume a new significance.

Some are as simple as the juxtaposition of a wooded area or garden with a building or road. Others celebrate the tug-of-war that takes place between what is built and what nature reclaims. These places are seen and depicted as as beautiful, and their beauty is a result of the forces that are acting upon them—the potent forces of the elements versus man’s desire to shape and control the urban landscape.

 

 

 

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