Santa Fe Trail new Serigrap 2000

Eyvind Earle made this serigraph, Santa Fe Trail, using flat planes of colour that give the landscape a flattened, almost dreamlike quality. It's not about depth so much as creating this kind of iconic, imagined space. The material handling here is all about smooth, precise application. The texture is minimal; Earle’s printing process conceals the hand, and gives the image a pristine surface. I find my eye is drawn to that mountain peak, a cascade of tiny lines that suggest foliage, or maybe even geological strata. It's like a tapestry, meticulously woven, but also a bit wild and untamed. There's something about Earle's graphic style, so tied to commercial art and animation, that reminds me of someone like David Hockney, who also played with flattening space. Both artists invite us to see the world not as it is, but as a series of beautiful, constructed surfaces.