Joshua Tree No. 7 Original Painting by Suzan Friedland

Original watercolor, ink & graphite painting on watercolor paper. It is on 12 inch x 16 inch cold press, heavyweight Arches watercolor paper. There is only one of this item. ABOUT THE SERIES: JOSHUA TREE DREAMSBefore Suzan moved to Joshua Tree, she visited often and fell in love with the vast skies, the rocks, and the strange trees. She started a series while visiting and her work mingles her earthy palette and abstract dance with paint. The natural environment is a powerful source of inspiration for Suzan's work. She spends quite a bit of time manipulating color and texture to portray both the color and topography of natural landscapes and the range of feelings they evoke. The recognition of impermanence informs much of her work. She gravitates towards the colors of fading flowers, the textures of clouds — natural elements that are continuously changing in perceptible and imperceptible ways. The attempt to express their ephemeral qualities in a static form is inherently paradoxica