Tosh Valley

I paint my versions of heaven. Places that are beautiful and meditative not commonly found on earth. Each of my paintings start with materials that excite me, like gold leaf and reflective pigments. I work the images until they seem to glow, and the materials appear to transform into something else, something otherworldly.

Nature is my muse for luminous interpretations of air, water, earth and light. Creating imaginary new worlds, merging the literal and the metaphorical, my paintings hover somewhere between pure abstraction and realistic landscape.

The ability to dream and to create new worlds by taking a flat surface and transforming it into the illusion of landscape is the gift that painters can bring to the world. With this concept of manipulating dimensions, a painter may point out something that already exists but in such a skillful manner that the viewer sees it in a brand new way. This is my mission as an artist— to give our invisible inner world a tangible visible form.