Neil Raitt

Neil Raitt’s surreal landscapes test limits of reality and artificiality. His paintings depict impossible horizons and forego the idea of an original relationship to a real or even specific place. Terrains, climates, disparate geographies are all mixed together becoming a portal to an emotional or psychological space. Their impossibleness acts almost as a parody or critique of traditional sea and landscapes and argues for the possibility of fresh perspectives. Free from nostalgia and lamentation of fading natural beauty, Raitt’s landscapes have a mythological quality conveyed both through the saturated intensity of his color and the particularity of his perspective.