Portfolio of Works

This series of paintings are collaborations with the artist, Jo-Ann Lowney.  Lowney's work expresses the idea that humans are not separate from nature, though they are emotionally and spiritually dissociated from the natural world.  Lowney's imagery is almost exclusively magic realist landscape, wildlife, still life.  Joel Coplin, as a figurative artist, expresses the human condition through the human form, often with mythical, theatrical, cultural references.  These collaborative paintings represent the comingling of the two approaches into a unified pictorial idea.  Both approaches are combined, evolved, and developed into a kind of answer to the dichotomy of man vs nature into Human Nature.