Statement

As a visual artist and landscape painter, I am committed to exploring the natural world through painting. Stimulated by the ordinary and the magnificent, I focus on timeless vistas: long stretches of land, sky, and water; views from the sea to the land; and sky as seen from my studio. I traverse the boundaries between tangible physical characteristics and my emotional response, to create interpretive paintings of the environment. Accomplished in plein air and studio practice, I work from watercolor studies, photographic documentation, and memory, to re-imagine the environment through the painting process. I rely on experience, intuition, and chance to push the landscape into new realms. My landscape paintings and drawings are infused with memory and the experience of being in nature.