Potrero

With a compositional geometry reminiscent of works by Richard Diebenkorn, Woody Gwyn's painting "Potero" confines its view to the essentials of its subject: a mown pasture, a foreground waterway, a distant treeline defining the border of the pasture, and a more distant wooded hillside. The "natural" in this case is no longer seen in a broad, panoramic sweep of atavistic outcrops but in the building blocks - the grasses, trees, reflections on water - that are made to follow a regularity of man's overlay.