When I experience nature, I sit, view, wander and travel through it. I photograph, film, and document my journeys. I have an experience that is constantly in flux; movement through space shifting relationships to the forms or moments I find most interesting and meaningful. Sometimes a landscape can reveal its poetic beauty. Other times land/nature/environment can be bureaucratic or politicized, depending on what I bring into the land. The point is I’m drawn to the natural world for a number of reasons and my time and experiences in nature becomes both memory of the mind and memory in the body. And if my body can carry its history with it, perhaps the act of painting can become be a synthesis, a physical manifestation through its process.

Creating painting is about being present for the process, seeing and feeling my way through the formal relationships as they change. It’s work that is as much about nature as it is about my relationship to nature. My abstract and surreal paintings capture familiar, yet indiscernible geological forms, rocks, rivers, flora and fauna, in energetic brushstrokes and lively color. I embrace a spirit of discovery in the painting process, repeating lines, shapes, and motifs that evolve organically. I allow for the unpredictable. and unexpected elements to find their place within the work.

The most import question I ask myself when I’m looking at this work, is not what it means, but how it makes me feel. How are these small, colorful breakthroughs, important, or necessary to the whole. Painting the surreal and abstract in this way becomes a microcosm of life, a bodily confirmation that penetrates me, forces me to be a part of the amorphous dynamic.”