Frederick J. Nelson grounds his work in texture, covering his canvases in a wash of cloud-like, feathered marks before adding planes of organic lines and flurries of petal-like groupings. The result is the intersection of abstraction and impressionist landscapes, evoking the floral subject with a method free from reproduction or mimicry.

 

“My paintings find their influence in Buddhist philosophy and the criticism of Baudelaire, both favoring a non-mimetic approach to art making . The sensibilities, both aesthetically and philosophically, expressed in these different cultural approaches is an interpretive, personal response to the visual world. The subject of my work is based on non-specific landscape and Improvisation.” -Artist Statement