Anywhere With You — Jamie Davis Art

Landscapes painting by Jamie Davis, Anywhere With You

Acrylic and pastel on panel · 36 × 48 in · 2011

The Story

"Anywhere with You" is a landscape that I have abstracted to represent my thoughts about the future. Sometimes in my life, I only have a vague direction of where to go, so I am left searching for clarity. But I have found comfort in all the chaos. "Anywhere with You" provides the perfect balance between abstract and representational forms. I give enough definition of the forms to allow viewers to interpret the imagery as they will and pose their own questions: Are the four forms in the top right and the top middle trees, figures, or buildings? Do they reside in front of the dark green plane, or are they in the background? Is it their reflections below them or shadows? Is the large turquoise field in the bottom two-thirds of the painting a body of water or a field? Are the dark, barely visible, forms rocks creating a path upon which to step? Or are they breadcrumbs that have been mostly consumed by animals in the wild, leaving the viewer endlessly searching for a direction back home? Those questions make "Anywhere with You" a painting that uses shape identification to toe the line between abstract and representation.