Artist Statement

I paint to give expression to the experience of inhabiting space.

I create geometric painted objects that embody a poetic physical translation of place. I combine abstraction with observation using forms found in vernacular architecture and the landscape such as billboards, signs, fields, water, and barns as source material. Through a slow process of mining a site for information, I draw on location, remembering specifics about each place by measuring distance and creating the illusion of light in each visual expression. I maintain a practice, often incorporating memories of observed landscapes into my paintings and isolating color events or single gestural marks. I approach each canvas or surface seeking an equivalence to the beauty found between the far away spaces and the details. The experience I want to translate is often invisible, a continuous flux between what is seen and what is known. In my current body of work, I use my own sketches, and color notes collected over twenty years to create new visual objects that reference a collected landscape and my stored visual memory.