Ribbons ARTISTS_Melvin Edwards landscapes in Fairmount Park(which became

landscapes in Fairmount Park(which became my second home)

resulting in a strong illusion of volume and surrounding three-dimensional space

connecting things together in this way is like creating pools of thought that you can dive into rather than one long river that you can only navigate by following the current

The human figure has always been a central focus in my work

Ribbons ARTISTS_Melvin Edwards landscapes in Fairmount Park(which becameFrom the Artist Ihad just traveled with my husband up the East Coast. He was doing a film; I think they were shooting in New Hampshire and Vermont or somewhere. Anyway, it was duringleaf peeper season, when the fall [of] the leaves are happening, andthe changes are happening, and I had always loved landscape painting. Ive looked at [the] landscape quite a bit. Quite a few of my early paintings are of the landscape. Whenever I travelI paint, and so