Two Men Over Red Sea

Guy Anderson is one of the major names in the Northwest School, a regional school that combined the quiet, contemplative spiritualism of Asian art and philosophy with the gray light of the Pacific Northwest. The shapes and tones of this painting are typical of Anderson's work and refer to the unity of life-forms, with symbolic, swirling forms and floating figures blended in a cosmos of inter-related mass. I paint hoping to use the human figure symbolically. –Artist statement