Landscape Paintings

Martin Blundell describes his paintings as the intersection of reality and memory.

He proceeds with observation of the landscape, both landforms and sky and their interaction one with another. Drawings, compositional renderings, color studies, and photo references are the foundation for his contemporary realist beginnings. His paintings progress through composition, color, light, and repeating motifs. These realist marks begin to be modified as reference material is abandoned as he finishes paintings by what is remembered. Modifying with impasto brush work and palette knife application of saturated color, the surfaces of the paintings are tactile.

The paintings become both an experience of reality and memory. The ambiguity of abstracted marks in a realist painting create a subtle tendency to activate the viewer's interaction, and imagination.