Somewhere Else Painting

My mixed media and collage paintings feature an abstracted representation of our physical world. I use today’s tool of satellite imagery via Google Earth to help me take you to a landscape that our eyes perceive, our minds infuse with meaning and imagination, and that our ancestors have modified and gifted to us. These explorations begin on gallery-wrapped canvas, using countless layers of acrylic color, built up by mixing and glazing, resulting in a luminous quality that can be found throughout my entire body of work. To further help me visually describe these landscape scenarios I make use of many altered found objects, cut paper, threads, metals, textured paper, acrylic mediums and so forth; building the surface with textural elements that are sometimes significant as a compositional tool and at other times as a descriptor of something specific in its own unique properties.