LANDSCAPES ON CANVAS AND WOOD PANEL
My work is about conveying the delicate interconnectedness of living things with the elements and how the light is inextricably linked to the soil, water, and environment of a particular place.
My process is an exploration of the elemental forces in nature and the narrative that unfolds as I paint. The water, atmosphere, light, and land interact. They drift, pull apart, converge, ascend, and descend. As I work, I explore the possibility of the shifting earth and environment through painting “imagined places”- places born from myth and reflection, experience and memory.
Each painting as a journey of possibility. In each piece, a narrative emerges. The landscape and its forms- trees, mountains, rivers, lakes, ponds are vessels possessing and evoking a sentiment, like the unfolding of a myth. I long to convey a heightened awareness through the use of unpredictable color, creating a sense of something fantastical, and stirring something different in the viewer. There is a sense of something otherworldly in shifting the space and scale to impossible geological formations and creating areas of ambiguity. I add bursts of scattered, splintered, and broken light.
I am drawn to how light shifts our perception of what surrounds us, creating halos of soft diffusion or pockets of ambiguity. I am intrigued by patterns and distortions in landscapes; what is 'real' and 'reflected' is set adrift in an imagined space. I marvel at the mystery that exists in the shadows and the emergence of light from darkness.
The light is truth.