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Huge cumulus clouds march low in formation across an immense expanse of sky in eastern Maryland past endless fields of corn. A gradation of grey-blue rain clouds, from dark to light, carpets the high skies above creating a transpose of negative and positive shape. Twenty-five years ago, I witnessed such a phenomenal transition and it never left me. In an effort to let this image go, I put it to paper.

David Ralph is a contemporary artist and illustrator currently living in Maryland. David's style of painting and illustration can best be described as geometric abstraction with influences ranging from the cubist paintings of Pablo Picasso to the primitive, cutout shapes of Henri Matisse. Other notable influences for David were Paul Cezanne's fragmented landscapes and the geometrically-divided, flat-color canvases of Piet Mondrian. To David, the simple elegance of the curve, the line, and the circle create the ideal two-dimensional plain of visual interest and appeal. And, to add color intensity, value contrast and balance to this space - along with repetition, texture and pattern - is to create a perfect harmony. It is to this goal that...