LANDSCAPE ARCHIVE
The paintings are informed by the continuously shifting environmental systems that surround me externally and internally, physically and psychologically.
I abstract from nature by attempting a simplified version of the truth that I see. I reduce the moment into its gesture: a memory that retains only the most important facts; like a visual haiku. Some of the paintings flirt with pure abstraction yet they manage to retain a sense of landscape. The paintings are created from a synthesis of views detached from that of an actual view.
My technique tends toward bold strokes. The line is sometimes calligraphic sometimes poured: the form is simplified with (or through) expanse of color. Since I want to describe with an economy of line or color, I employ free movements of the arm and hand without the constraint of a defined outcome.
I abstract from nature by attempting a simplified version of the truth that I see. I reduce the moment into its gesture: a memory that retains only the most important facts; like a visual haiku. Some of the paintings flirt with pure abstraction yet they manage to retain a sense of landscape. The paintings are created from a synthesis of views detached from that of an actual view.
My technique tends toward bold strokes. The line is sometimes calligraphic sometimes poured: the form is simplified with (or through) expanse of color. Since I want to describe with an economy of line or color, I employ free movements of the arm and hand without the constraint of a defined outcome.
