My current body of work uses landscape as a subject to observe the evolution of our environment. I begin my paintings from perception and incorporate imagination and memory as I create an image. My paintings reflect a careful study of landscape on an intimate scale.
I use a limited color palette specific to the landscape around me, which I adapt according to the location and time. I work with oil paint on canvas, paper, and wood. I often work on site, responding directly to my surroundings. In particular I look for the mysterious and unsettling in nature, finding frames such as a landscape obstructed by bramble, bright red flags on a beach, or tightly cropped reflections on water. Through beautiful rendering, these images subtly disturb the viewer, evoking feelings of nostalgia while creating a sense of unease and anxiety about the state of our environment. My approach to landscape considers the viewer as an active participant without putting man above or separate from nature. I carefully layer colors and glaze, I scrape, and embrace errant sand and leaves in my paint. This tactility reinforces my material approach to painting that is grounded in the physical environment. I aim to craft thought provoking paintings that reference ubiquitous feelings and emotions with a fidelity to landscape and location.