PAINTINGS
Here are my most my current bodies of work. The Ocean Fields, The Coastline, The Mountains, and Abstracts. My work is based in the landscape. The work ranges from representation to abstraction but is all grounded in a painterly aesthetic that lets the pain be paint. The paint application and texture is as important to the piece as the subject matter or even colors. I believe the place the work is created imbues a presence into the work that could only have been created there.
EXHIBITIONS
My most recent exhibitions at Kay Contemporary Art and Elliott Fouts Gallery
ABOUT
The act of being in a place, connecting and resonating deeply with nature, the earth—this is at the core of my art practice. It is a physical expression of my inward reality connecting with the external forces of nature. I paint outdoors as a meditation. Sometimes I lay multiple canvases on the ground, working on them simultaneously. I move from canvas to canvas—a single stroke here, a single stroke there. It allows me to get my entire body into a painting, and find a state of flow where body, canvas, and landscape become one. I complete my paintings in one session. I resist refining in the studio. I would rather have an honest stroke that emerges from the place it was created than a perfect composition.