Last Friday’s ARTScrawl at Sumner & Dene gallery was the opening art reception and book signing of Angus Macpherson’s new book “Paintings ~ Quotes ~ Artist’s Notes.” The entire second floor of the gallery was filled with Macpherson’s images, acrylic paintings of dramatic skies, often in radiant translucent layers of twilight and dawn hues with fluid compositions of the grand and intimate simultaneously. Well-known for his ability to juxtapose the chaos and absolute serenity of nature in his dramatic landscapes, many of which are derived from the balance of ever-changing skies to earth over his native New Mexico. Macpherson’s paintings reveal explosions of color in which the results are not necessarily predictable yet create breathtaking beauty in all directions.
