Celestial Blue Painting

I am a painter living on the West Coast of Canada in a semi-rural community which is accessible only by ferry. I paint mostly abstracts and landscapes. I usually start a painting without a predetermined idea and let it evolve according to my intuition. Many times the painting evolves to depict an imaginary landscape. I paint primarily in oil, but sometimes in watercolour, acrylic or alcohol inks. I appreciate the longer drying time of oil, and the buttery quality of the paint. My oil paintings often use cold wax medium, which changes the qualities of the paint, allowing me to build up many layers, giving depth and interest to the painting. My specialties are luminous abstracts and expressive landscapes. Artists whose work inspires me include Todd Clark (who I have studied with), Gordon Smith, JMW Turner and Claude Monet. Whether abstract or representational, my goal is for my paintings to communicate something of my interior, mental landscape. Each of us is an individual isolated mind in a complex world and it is so easy to feel ‘alone’ or ‘different’ from everyone else. Art can function as a way to communicate when words are insufficient for the task. My art often depicts the intersection of human construction (buildings, piers, bridges, signs etc) and the natural world. I studied and worked in physics and computing science before completing a degree in Visual Art.