Swimming with Piranhas Painting

ARTIST STATEMENT My work initially is a document of the transformation of a landscape, whether this is the beauty of a plunging valley having been savagely ripped and carved by ice, leaving plucked rocks and rugged contours in its wake, or the layers of earth revealed by weathering and erosion. I strive to capture the natural light as it dramatically saturates the landscapes, casting shadows or softening the landscape during the late summer, all dusky, warm and slightly flushed. My interest is in the natural erosion and the impact it has on us. I am drawn to the landscape both man-made and natural, it might be the way a cloud forms and hangs waif-like, lingering, soft and harmless or how it can suddenly transform to smother, encroaching overhead, ominous and menacing. I am amazed by the desolation of snow capped mountains, frozen and chilling, to meandering rivers and ox-bow lakes created by river erosion. The influence of weather, climate and sudden changes in the landscape are what inspire me and I am constantly looking and trying to capture this in my work.