A master of landscape turns inward

Published in the Princeton Packet by Ilene Dube (October 19, 2011)

From the mountains of China to Norway’s Lofoten Islands, from the sunsets of the American Southwest to gardens in France, England and Japan, Princeton artist Thomas George has immersed himself in the beauty and mystery of nature for more than six decades.

In recent years, Mr. George, 93, has come inside. No longer filling large canvases, he is working smaller, but the theme remains as large as the galaxies he paints.

He calls these newer works interior landscapes, or inscapes. “I have found that moving into a restricted workspace … has conferred real benefits,” he writes in an artist statement. “I have realized that my subconscious and my imagination have, paradoxically, more space in which to work and speak. As I have made the gouaches, I have been recalling such natural phenomena from where they are stored in my subconscious.” 

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