MY ARTWORK is intended to engage, inspire, and entertain, provoking viewers to pause and reconsider some aspect of the natural world. My paintings should be beautiful to behold, regardless of concept; if I am not willing to hang a painting on my own wall, I consider it to be either unfinished or a failure.
My paintings celebrate the natural world in all its messiness, contradictions, and complexity. I am drawn to the subtle patterns, textures, and shapes that comprise my landscape, and the endless variations of light and color that suffuse objects according to season, weather, and time of day.
At the same time, my body of work protests our relentless compulsion to quantify, digitize, and categorize every aspect of modern life. I reject my culture’s steady retreat from sensory experience outside an ever more narrowly defined comfort zone. In my paintings I oppose orthodoxy and formula, asserting not just the individual’s right, but the imperative to cultivate an active life off the grid, engaging directly with the physical world.
I am also interested in exploring new and emerging ways to combine text with image. I have years of experience as a photographer, video producer, writer, and editor, and have been designing print publications for more than three decades. A number of my paintings have short essays or lyrical captions to deepen their meaning and context.
