Tim McDonald: The Diamond Sea

Abstraction can be a challenge—it can confound and just as easily enlighten, and it leaves itself open to interpretation. These paintings were created in 2020, and serve as a snapshot of one artist’s experience making work in difficult times when, “there seemed to be no escape from the constant pressure of the climate, both political and natural.” On the other hand, lack of noise is an integral part of experiencing McDonald’s work. In creating The Diamond Sea he was painting “toward or into a silence,” making work “that offered a sense of quiet, or reflection, or contemplation.”  Through warm colors, mystical forms, shimmering surfaces, and hushed silence, McDonald’s paintings are meant to be felt across the senses.