Jef Gunn / 5 Paintings
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"Red Pine Trees" 17" x 9 3/4" Encaustic on wood 1996
"All Mountains Are Above All Waters" 22 1/2'' x 24''Encaustic, linoleum, gold leaf on wood door  1996
"Mountains and rivers create each other endlessly."
Encaustic on wood 1995
"Looking north from Blue Lake. Is earth not a woman?"
"Blue Lake Angel" 20 1/2" x 15 3/4" Encaustic, metal on wood 1996"In the North Cascades, east of Rainy Pass, is Blue Lake, where we like to go to see the larches turn in October. It is a small, high lake in a deep bowl of snowy crags, with, somehow, a womanly feel to it."
"Cold Mountain Poem #41" 32" x 18 1/4"Encaustic, linoleum on wood  1996
"Most of these paintings have their begining in some event in real life. Something happens; a moment of insight or beauty. Flat space, or Medieval space helps us feel peaceful. For this reason I've long shied away from depicting real space. Lately I've been exploring a different kind of space, sometimes flat, yet open and expanding. Foreground, middleground and background are not connected in logical, real space ways; so time seems to expand. When time expands, we relax. At ease, and yet awake! The whole event takes place inside No Time."
- Jef Gunn
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