Vladimir Kush

It's wonderfully rainy here in Colorado Springs. Autumn is breezing in and I keep finding pockets of color hidden in the nooks and crannies of this town. Something about the fall weather reaches deeper into your lungs and makes you want to sleep; and it's in this spirit of sleep and daydreams that I want to do a quick write-up of Vladimir Kush, a favorite surrealist painter of mine.

Kush's landscapes remind me of places I've seen countless times in my own daydreams. His treatment of clouds is what really struck me when I had the pleasure of viewing one of his pieces in one of Fort Collins' (sadly now defunct) art galleries. I found myself more willing to view it as a portal into another world than as a painting, already longing for the next time I could see it in my own daydreams.

Artist website here.