Nocturnes
2021
In this series of “Nocturnes,” Glenn Suokko focuses on depicting tree forms at the time of the day when the sun has set and twilight slowly spreads over the land, transforming former multidimensionality into flattened notes of diminishing contras. Applying a musical term to the series title of these pensive, moody works, is related to musical expressions such as study or harmony as a way to deemphasize potential narrative content and instead to emphasize the more muted tonal qualities and soft, diffused, northern light that imbues a strong sense of melancholy often indicative of the mountainous environment where Suokko lives.
Nocturne
2021–42
Oil on linen panel, 8 x 6
Private collection
Nocturne
2021–44
Oil on linen panel, 8 x 6
Private collection
Nocturne
2021–47
Oil on linen panel, 8 x 6
Private collection
Nocturne
2021–57
Oil on linen, 14 x 12
Private collection
Nocturne
2021–58
Oil on linen, 14 x 12
Private collection
Nocturne
2021–59
Oil on linen, 12 x 14
Private collection
“I am interested in observing and rendering the time of day when the retreating light casts three-dimensional objects into silhouette, and color is desaturated from vibrant greens to neutral grays, and the values between light and dark that earlier in the day would define objects and textures, slowly merge into abstracted forms.”
Glenn Suokko
Nocturne
2021–60
Oil on linen, 12 x 14
Private collection
Nocturne
2021–61
Oil on linen, 12 x 14
Available work
Nocturne
2021–63
Oil on linen, 12 x 12
Private collection
Nocturne
2021–64
Oil on linen, 12 x 12
Private collection
Nocturne
2021–72
Oil on linen, 16 x 20
Private collection
Nocturne
2021–83
Oil on linen, 12 x 12
Private collection
Nocturne
2021–87
Oil on canvas, 16 x 20
Private collection