Yellowstone Study #6
All of my life I heard about the beauty of Yellowstone National Park. Although I had never been there, I had an idea of what it looked like and dreamed of visiting. I was stunned in 1988 when the National Geographic released photos of the wildfires that burned about a third of the entire national park. The burned over landscape was very different than the forest I had envisioned.
I've only visited the park once, during May of 2008, when several feet of snow still covered the ground. I was fascinated by the still obviously fractured and scarred landscape left by those fires years before. I did a whole series of paintings inspired by that visit, attempting to celebrate the untamed beauty I saw.
With the major flooding in Yellowstone now, I'm sure there will be another dramatic change in the landscape. In some ways it is sad and tragic, but isn't that part of the charm of a National Park? Nature will do what it is going to do and we have saved a space to observe it.
I'm excited to release several of the images from my original study for prints later this week. Stay tuned to Facebook and Instagram for the release date and a coupon code.
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