Nate Burbeck’s panoramic oil paint­ings intro­duce us to char­ac­ters who seem like they are on a jour­ney. At the same, how­ever, there feels like much mean­der­ing involved– that these peo­ple (and spaces) aren’t nec­es­sar­ily look­ing for any­thing in par­tic­u­lar… just yet. Nate’s state­ment on his work:

My cur­rent series of paint­ings com­bine var­i­ous land­scapes, visual metaphor, and fig­ures to con­struct a visual nar­ra­tive, which alludes to the sur­real or super­nat­ural in the con­text of con­tem­po­rary sen­si­bil­ity. This is achieved by a process of meld­ing var­i­ous pho­to­graphic ref­er­ences to cre­ate a cohe­sive visual nar­ra­tive that is at once con­tin­gent and para­dox­i­cal, whose real­ity only exists within the bounds of image and imag­i­na­tion. Through the guise of the painted image these works also aim to project a sense of won­der and illu­sion, draw­ing on con­cepts of the sub­lime, para­nor­mal, spir­i­tual rev­e­la­tion, con­tem­pla­tion and cin­e­matic grandeur.

All images via his web­site.