TIMELESS LIGHT

This collection focuses on the "Quality of Light" as the true subject of the paintings. That moment of light is brief and dynamic. It reveals the dramatic folds and textures of Kauai's Na Pali Coast.

Millions of years of wind, rain, and crashing waves have sculpted lava into ancient organic cathedrals that shape-shift in the ever-changing light.

The scenes are fleeting moments in a timeline of unreasonable proportions.

This body of work is from the last few years.

Atmosphere and lighting effects are achieved with careful planning of many transparent paint layers.

Each piece takes many sessions of painting that happen over the course of months; 60 - 400 hours per piece.

For a person, that feels like a long time. For a mountain, it is not even a breath. The light has come, reflected throught our world and gone faster than we can perceive.

The presentation of each painting is completed with a unique wood frame I build specifically for that piece.

-Max Lemaire