"AUGUST AIR on the PRAIRIE"
2009

36"x24" inches, oil on canvas
$4,000
Available call or email Matthew

Close up at right
This is a major work with a significant amount of detail.

In the ungrazed Flint Hills, Tall Bluestem, Switchgrass and Indian Grass grow to seven feet in height. Their presence is a sign of a healthy and recovering Native grassland. They suddenly bolt toward the sun in August to blossom. Taller than you can reach they turn from blue and greens to deep orange and rusts with bloody oxides of red and pale yellow ochres.

Cool Northern and wet Southern air masses will mix to form towers of liquid energy. They rise with heat, push against each other, rain down lightning and deliciously cold violent bursts of wind precede the rain and hail. If you get out of your box and walk through it before the storm you will hear and smell the sizzle of the grass.

As featured in the

"VISIONS OF THE FLINT HILLS"

2009 Group show to benefit the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve National Park
Kansas Park Trust, sponsor