CLARK HAALAND
Built over several weeks in layers of paint, texture, and time. It wasn't until the final pass that the piece told me what it had been about all along.
Threshold
Original paintings, built in layers.
Each painting begins as material — paint, texture, time — before it becomes anything else. What emerges is not always planned, and not always explained.
Emergence
This one took months, paint and modeling paste built up, scraped back, rebuilt, revealing what wanted to come out rather than what was planned.The title arrived after the work was done, once I'd spent time sitting with it. I was moving through a difficult stretch when I made this, physically,spiritually, mentally, and otherwise, and "Emergence" was less a description of the painting than of where I actually was. What it emerges into is still unfolding.
Acrylic on Canvas 36 x 36
$3,500
Available
Expanse
This one started as a response to an earlier painting of mine that was flat, geometric, and a little unbalanced, hanging in my house where I'd walk by it and know it wasn't right. I kept the same color scheme but built up heavy texture, layers of glazing, and movement over that flatness. Sitting with the finished piece, I saw the blues separating from the deeper earth tones and thought of Genesis 1, the second day of creation, when God separated the waters above from the waters below and called the expanse sky.
Acrylic on Canvas 24 x 36
$3,000
Available
Hope
A more limited, almost monochromatic palette here . Layers of transparent glaze built up against heavy texture, working for movement and depth within a narrow range of color. I started this one asking myself what hope would actually look like, if it had a shape. I don't know if this is it. It's just how the question materialized, at this point in my life.
Acrylic on Canvas 36 x 36
$3,500
Available
Beginning of Joy
One of my first large canvases. I began this painting as an emotional outlet, which is not usually how I approach my work. At the time, I needed somewhere to place what I was carrying, and painting became a brief refuge.
After it was finished and had spent some time in the studio, I realized the work had become something more than escape. Making it had brought a sense of joy back with it, along with a growing confidence and a renewed sense of hope.
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, incorporating texture paste, corrugated tape, pastel, and small elements of paper collage.
Acrylic on Canvas 24 x 36
$3,000
Collected
I’m an abstract artist drawn to texture, color, layering, and the moments when meaning begins to surface through the act of making.I often begin without a fixed image in mind. The work develops through accumulation, removal, glazing, texture, and response, each layer informing the next. Over time, something begins to reveal itself: a sense of movement, memory, place, tension, joy, or transformation.My broader creative practice includes writing, picture books, and contemplative work shaped by faith, but the thread running through all of it is attention, noticing what is forming, giving it shape, and allowing meaning to emerge without forcing it.If you have a question about a piece, are looking for a particular size, or simply want to say hello, I’d love to hear from you.
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