HORIZON Watercolour on wood, size: 3 ½ by 5 inches (each individual painting). Known for its fresh cleansing smell, porous softness, beautiful pale colour and mesmerizing patterned growth rings, renewable harvested Pine wood is sometimes manufactured as commercial plank interlocking building material called Lodge Pole Pine.   Horizon paintings, sized 3 ½ by 5 inch are a response to the natural imagery specific of the tiny sections of wood; each contains the vast prairie world: wide open spaces, huge sky, cloud formation, flat plain and rolling hill, tilled earth and dug-out or lake water. When placed in various configurations Horizon images introduce the viewer to both the material and image linked as widely disparate connections of nature and events. The long board format (8 foot running length by 5 inches tall) echo DNA strands. When formatted as squares or rectangles the Horizon landscapes resonate ‘patchwork quilt’ as seen in a top down view of the man-made prairie farmscape from an airplane. Taken individually the tiny paintings are miniaturist, rough and delicate at once, each piece retains its prairie landscape’s well-known variety of weather conditions, physical textures and vastness. Horizon conjures all things Prairie, it’s impossible to ignore The Land, the feeling of it, permeates every pore. Consciousness of its fractals is as old as time - shapes that hold repetition and pattern, these natural images are everywhere. Horizon was created with instinctual memory of place played against physical memory held in the wood material. This series of paintings attempts to achieve a balanced combination of recognizable landscape and pure abstraction in homage to my birthplace and chosen home. Gronberg Commision October 2009