Acclaimed Southwest landscape artist David Jonason painted “Delicate Arch,” a portion of which appears on the cover of Arches Enemy.
Combining a keenly observant eye and inspiration drawn from a number of twentieth-century art movements, including Cubism, Futurism, Precisionism, and Art Deco, Jonason achieves a uniquely personal vision through his vivid, dreamlike oil paintings of the American Southwest. Jonason connects on canvas the traditional arts and crafts of the Southwest’s native tribes with the intricate patterns in nature known as fractals. “For me as a painter,” he says, “it’s a reductive and simplifying process of finding the natural geometries in nature, just as Navajo weavers and Pueblo potters portray the natural world through geometric series of zigzags, curves, and other patterns.”
“Delicate Arch” (36×36 inches, oil on canvas, 2015) is used by permission of The Jonason Studio, davidjonason.com.