I paint and draw, mostly landscapes, often abstracted.
I appreciate the marks within a work of art, including the initial mistakes, accidents, and other struggles left visible even as parts of the representational image become more clarified. Though I start each painting from life or photos, I usually abandon the reference to focus on how the painting functions as a non-representational painting. I sometimes go back to the reference, re-finding and pulling forward parts of the realistic image, but may ultimately obscure them again, drawing the viewer's attention away from the image and back to the line. I aim to find a balance between representation and non-representation.
My interest in the landscape is partly in its ability to be simultaneously general and specific. A landscape can be indicative of a neighborhood, city, state, region, country, etc. It can represent the sentimental layout of a particular great-grandmother's lifelong backyard plantings, or it could be a random arrangement of plants as trees or birds may have dropped the seeds. The landscape can be the primary subject, but also the possible setting for another story. From a single spot in any location, there are thousands of potential landscape paintings. It's a subject that just doesn't seem to get exhausted.
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