Today there are many artists who are working with art and the natural environment. I recently was sent a link of an interesting use of wind and landscape – the work of the late Belgian artist Bob Verschueren who created Wind Paintings in the 1970s and 1980s. To make the pieces he would go to a empty landscape and paint lines of crushed charcoal, iron oxide, chalk, and other pigments in a linear pattern. Over the time of a few hours, the wind would come through and create the works – and eventually blow them away.
On his website the artist writes a description of the works which states, “Natural pigments spread across the landscape with the help of the wind. The conjunction of three decisive elements: the direction and the strength of the wind, the landscape and its relief and the hand of the sower of color.” He also writes about how the first Wind Painting gave him the extraordinary sense of living his art – rather than creating it.
His other works include installations made of ephemeral materials including nettle and water lily leaves, sand, tree branches, moss, twigs, and vegetables.
To see more images of his Wind pieces and other art, you can goto his website – http://www.bobverschueren.net.
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