The Art of Philip Koch (with narration)

My paintings are a contemporary re-imagining of the romantic panoramas of the 19th century American painters of the Hudson River School. These early painters found the New England mountains and coast a sufficient springboard to forge a powerful art from their deep and emotional response to nature. The land they painted seemed to them a new Eden.

In our time with its ecological degradation, the symbolic value of this Eden seems at once more remote and yet more urgently needed. Making a painting of the fruitful primordial wilderness freshens the winds of my own energies and optimism. It is a theme that calls me back again painting after painting. Wilderness and the meeting of the land and the seas are among the most deeply buried chapters of our common origins. They are portraits of an often forgotten part of ourselves. I feel these paintings are a tool, a bit of practical magic to help the viewers reconnect with their own natures and their deeper resources.

http://www.philipkoch.com

(Footage courtesy of MPT Artworks This Week)

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[josephhyde]

Beautiful, Philip