Grounded in nature, these pieces use familiar horizons, classic perspectives, and structured pathways that foreshadow everything to come.

Studio Archive Pieces shown here
© 2026 John Czwartacki

foundational landscapes

Wildflowers and Pond

24” x 18” inches

Oil on canvas panel

2026

An early landscape anchor where the artist explores projecting mood and emotion, hiding in plain sight.

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Icy River

24” x 18” inches

Oil on canvas panel

2026

Frozen winter locked at a hopeless moment, yet still framing a path out and toward an escape.

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Mountain Laurel Mountain

24” x 18” inches

Oil on canvas

2026

An alluring foreground bucolic hillside distracts from a dangerous suggestion of hovering changes rolling in.

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Idiotque

8" x 12" inches

Oil on canvas panel

2025

The Bob Ross rebellion; where traditional geography meets a gateway-drug sky textured with emotion... previews AbEx work to come.

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Fake (plastic) trees

12" x 8" inches

Oil on canvas panel

2025

The artist's first completed oil painting foreshadows future works that aim to swallow a viewer through color and forms.

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Floor is Lava

24” x 18” inches

Oil on canvas panel

2026

A trippy interior landscape of a childhood memory. The family room tossed by a raucous kids' game, soaked in the aroma of boy energy, sleepover pizza, and sweat socks. This distorted domestic scene is trapped between two threats: an imagined red-hot floor below and a looming, chilling darkness in the picture window above. Stuttering with an awkward looseness, thick with a joy-filled chaos that hints at a foreboding.

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Cityscape at Dawn

18” x 24” inches

Oil on canvas panel

2026

Transforming structural urban towers into moody, psychological cries or reflections.

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Smokey Sunset, Rushing River

12" x 8" inches

Oil on canvas panel

2025

Far off wildfires shroud a sunset as a swift moving river teaches the artist about implied and literal abilities of oil painting.

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