Newport Sth Drawing

When as a youth I became familiar with the Cubist works and theories of Braque and Picasso, they inspired me to continually seek to depict the world, with 'new' awareness; with a unique vision. This desire has fuelled my painting and drawing ever since. Simplification and reduction of what I 'see', releases me to pursue an inner landscape. My home environment is surrounded by numerous small bays, with their encircling cliffs and headlands, that mark the landscape around our seacoast. Constant erosion across countless millennia has revealed rock strata millions of years old, and the ability to view this strata and its layered record of time record has captured my interest for many years. As photography freed up painting in the late 18th century, so we of the 21st century live in an age of unprecedented evolution of the visual experience. The ability to view hidden layers of strata and to look back in time is analogous to contemporary methods of digital imaging. Space telescopes, LiDar, and other technological methods of seeing, have changed how we comprehend and understand the universe around us. We can literally see back in time. Yet, when I look at ancient layers of rock and sediment, new forms and images are revealed. And change is constant, even as we watch.