Artist's Statement
My paintings express “realities” which are possible only in spirit. The various series on this site explore elemental energies, ethereal landscapes, and our human journey. Each series is a distinct approach, yet they all express a sense of wonder and, taken together, become a meditation on the veil between seen and unseen.
In 2010, I embarked on three new series expressing the vital energies of earth’s elements. My 2011 exhibit is “The Life of Water.” Some images for that summer show are already on this site. 2012 will bring “The Life of Fire.” And my 2013 show will be “The Life of Air.” These paintings are somewhat more abstract than earlier series, evoking a phenomenon rather than depicting it.
In works from the past few years, “The Seekers Series” of scrolls and “The Sepia Series” of landscapes depict places that do not exist in the material world but resonate in the language of the mind.
No figures are represented in the 2008 “Sepia Series,” though evidence of human intervention punctuates all landscapes: a telephone poll, a bridge, power lines, train tracks.
The 2009 Seekers Series went further both in technique and content. The raw linen canvas used in the Sepia Series was freed from its stretchers, allowed to ripple with the textures. The limited palette in the Sepia Series was also taken further into blacks and whites. And silhouetted figures (the “seekers”) embark on quests implied in the earlier work.
Now color returns with bold imagery in “The Life of Water.” Together with “The Seekers Series” and “The Sepia Series” these paintings reach for order amidst wilderness, an underlying balance in the universe.
In 2010, I embarked on three new series expressing the vital energies of earth’s elements. My 2011 exhibit is “The Life of Water.” Some images for that summer show are already on this site. 2012 will bring “The Life of Fire.” And my 2013 show will be “The Life of Air.” These paintings are somewhat more abstract than earlier series, evoking a phenomenon rather than depicting it.
In works from the past few years, “The Seekers Series” of scrolls and “The Sepia Series” of landscapes depict places that do not exist in the material world but resonate in the language of the mind.
No figures are represented in the 2008 “Sepia Series,” though evidence of human intervention punctuates all landscapes: a telephone poll, a bridge, power lines, train tracks.
The 2009 Seekers Series went further both in technique and content. The raw linen canvas used in the Sepia Series was freed from its stretchers, allowed to ripple with the textures. The limited palette in the Sepia Series was also taken further into blacks and whites. And silhouetted figures (the “seekers”) embark on quests implied in the earlier work.
Now color returns with bold imagery in “The Life of Water.” Together with “The Seekers Series” and “The Sepia Series” these paintings reach for order amidst wilderness, an underlying balance in the universe.
