Win Zibeon: Anti Landscapes

75 Degrees Anglesea
Apple of My Isle
Assault
Axed
Black Brook
Bored Cezanne
Cracked
Framed
Hudson River # 2
I Told You Not to Shake...
Landscape with a Point
Newborough
The Next Step
Nothing Is As It Streams
Objects In the Mirror
Ogunquit
Painting Newborough
Phantom Bird
Phantsmagorical Bird
Renoir's Bra
Sailing on the Ribble
Secondhand Smoke
String Gogh
String Theory
Tolo Splashdown
Uninvited Guest
You Can Paint Ducks

With concern about our environment Win Zibeon has included a forest and mountain scene, devastated by an axe, a photo-real ocean scene with a crack severing the vista, black ink spots marring the scene and a mannikin traversing the alps.
To acknowledge the Hudson River School he has painted a winter sunset with the blue river spilling out of a paint tube.
His father-in-law told him that it would be a good idea to paint ducks. And a bird landed in front of his painting and another bird flew over the antilandscape. He imagines a sailboat on the river. Newport Gardener shows red suspenders draped on a Newport landscape, Back to Work looks as though someone has hung a coat hanger with a tie on a bucolic landscape,
He has made optical illusions out of a beach, paint dripping over the North Wales seacoast and from a favorite waterfall.
He shows a Maine beach with a very real rock suspended before it. A carpenter steps through the landscape.
He plays with our ideas of reality by painting frames within frames within frames.
He toys with our perceptions and uses shaped canvases to show us an odd lake, a rocky Greek coastline, a sheer Greek coastline and the Hudson River.
The great Impressionist painters don't escape his teasing. He has painted a humorous tribute to Renoir, a comment on Monet's smoking, a strung Van Gogh, and a Bored Cezanne.

Win Zibeon calls these realist paintings, "anti-landscapes". People say all the time: "Where do you get these ideas? Why don’t you paint landscapes?"
Landscapes are everywhere. These paintings are his reaction to
what he considers safety and blandness.

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