Glacial Meltwater

Painting. 49" by 145". Self-made soil paints, with manufactured acrylic paint patinae, on concrete panel, enclosed with stainless-steel frame and carbon steel mount and underframe structure. Painting face is set 3" from two-foot-thick untreated concrete wall.

Collection of Springbrook Properties and permanently installed in the Allison Inn & Spa, Newberg, Oregon.

Soil minerals (pigments) gathered from the soil excavated for the Allison Inn & Spa, including the Amity and Woodburn Soil Series (Willamette Silts deposited from glacial Lake Allison).


Official Soil Series Descriptions
Amity
Woodburn

(c) 2009 Jay Noller

Baker Creek Gley

Acrylic and Wapato soil on clayed panel
18" by 24"

Portrait of a profile of the Wapato soil series (Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls) amongst the scroll bars and sloughs of the mighty Willamette River, Benton County, Oregon.


Official series description

(c) 2009 Jay Noller

Nekia at Springbrook

Nekia soil and acrylic on clayboard panel
24" by 30"
In private collection












Portrait of a profile of the Nekia soil series (Fine, mixed, active, mesic Xeric Haplohumults) on hillslope above Allison Spa, Sringbrook (Newberg), Oregon.

Official series description

(c) 2009 Jay Noller

Great Basin Soil #4

"Prismatic Structure"


Playa soil and acrylic on panel
24" by 48"

© 2008 Jay Stratton Noller


Three views of painting

Great Basin Soil #3

"Blue Horizon"

Playa soil and acrylic on panel
24" by 48"

© 2008 Jay Stratton Noller



Three views of painting

Great Basin Soil #2

"Flow Morphology"

Playa soil and acrylic on panel
24" by 48"

© 2008 Jay Stratton Noller


Three views of painting and frame.

Great Basin Soil #1

"Worm Burrow"

Playa soil and acrylic on panel
24" by 48"

© 2008 Jay Stratton Noller



Three views of painting