Since the mid 1950’s, Joseph Fiore’s vision has focused on painting the landscape, but his interpretation of that subject matter has evolved.  He began by depicting the traditional expansive views of nature.  In 1978, when he created a painting entitled “Variations on a Rock”, he began to experiment with rock fragments that he had collected from various trips to the Delaware Water Gap and Maine.  He came to view nature in a more intimate, personal, and abstract manner.  He became more interested in shapes and “… marks which looked like figurations of man’s making, fossils, and geometric patterns of fault lines,” and the “… subtle colors of some and the loud contrasts of others”.

To the keen observer, these paintings transform observations of the literal word of nature into lyrical metaphors.  His selection of paint colors is strong and luminous, his use of lines rhythmical, and his depiction of shapes geometric and symbolic.  These paintings are poetic view of nature.