Road Trip Print

As process and the dynamism of nature are preeminent, I find my paintings, like the landscape itself, are in a continual state of flux. They are a glimpse of my dynamic connection to my environment at a given moment, an episodic moment in time. The materials and subject merge along with significant moments of inspiration to record my immersion in my process, shifting continuously between formal and intuitive concerns as each piece develops. The work focuses on the phenomenological and experiential aspects of landscape/painting rooted in both lived experience of place and the imagination. Attention is paid to spatial types and what they might engender rather than to rational spatial concepts. Sensations are referenced, sensations brought about by both the smaller and the larger revelations, perceptions, oscillations, and then translated in a rigorous, yet, instinctive manner, formally responding to both the experience of place and the act of mark making as each is considered. The search is to create a sense of space, to express visually moments of an enmeshed experience. In the end, the aim is a continued evolution of a visual language over time and through experience, a language that may advance not only the nature of my own work, but also that of a larger body and, hopefully, exert a force upon contemporary culture.