Succession Series

Succession “42” - Benton Hill

Succession “42” - Floating

Succession “42” - Life Forms

Succession “42” - Molecular Motion

Succession “42” - Grain

Succession “42” - Flow

Succession “42” - Sandbars

Succession “42” - DNA

Succession “42” - Pancake Ice

Succession “42” - Mud Flats

Succession “42” - Ice Hole

Succession “42” - Arabesque

Succession “42” - River Courses

Succession “42” - Space Dancing

Succession “42” - The Pleiades

Succession “42” - Big Bang

Succession “42” - Spiral Galaxy

Succession “42” - Space Web

Succession “42” - The Seed

Succession “42” - Quasar

Succession Whole Series

 

The idea behind this series was inspired by ecological succession, a natural sequential process in which there is a gradual supplanting of one community of life forms by another, each stage building upon the previous stage.

This first final work is a large painting made up of twenty 12″x12″ panels. The process of creating each new work evolved from the previous work. The first panel was the seed for the whole series, with each new panel unfolding from an edge of the previous panel, yet with the freedom for each new panel to go in a different direction than the one before.

Many of the individual panels in this series were inspired by patterns of different scales in the natural world – from molecules to ice sheets to nebulae.