Tuesday

Outdoor inspiration: Artist Jim Denevan

Nature has inspired artists for centuries, from depicting it to interacting with it. Artist Jim Denevan is one of those who prefer the latter. Working completely by free-hand, Denevan constructs complex drawings on long stretches of beach. His canvas is organic, made of sea and sand. His drawings however look exactly the opposite; precise and meticulously calculated. The striking thing about Denevan’s work is its natural precision; although his images look as if they have taken hours of planning and calculating, they are done completely freehand, drawn only with a beach stick. Denevan’s work is the kind of stuff that is immediately breathtaking, both for its scope and the organic labor involved. Continue…