Turquoise & Terracotta - Silent Passage

This Turquoise & Terracotta Series is build around just two colors: turquoise and orange, chosen to capture the feeling of landscapes scorched by sun. I was thinking of sun-bleached photographs where colors fade when I came up with this idea. The orange brings in the heat, the building, the dryness of summer. The turquoise gives it contrast: shadows, sky, the distant mountains. 

By limiting the palette, I wanted the focus to be on light and shape, and how sunlight can flatten, distort, or carve out space. These paintings are not exact places, they are impressions, held in the eye after looking too long into the light.