My current body of work uses landscape as a subject to denote the finite nature of our environment. I begin my paintings from perception and incorporate imagination and memory as I craft an image. My compositions are simple and contain abundant open space; expanses of color and sky, punctuated by a cloud, a line, or a scratch.
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, or wood. I often work on site, responding directly to my surroundings. At first glance my images seem to be straightforward expanses of color and shape, with a recognizable image, but upon closer examination the surface treatment becomes apparent. Colors are carefully layered, scumbled, glazed, and then scraped away. The materiality of the paint, pigment, and oil, serves to ground the viewer in reality. I aim to invoke a sense of nostalgia in the viewer by crafting images that are not specific to place but are centered in the present moment.
“A visual event may reproduce itself in the realm of touch, which may in turn reappear in a second visual event, the finished drawing. ”