“Painting is the most natural and direct way to for me to express ideas about the world I live in and my place in it. I have a constant fascination with the way the world looks, with the way light defines and erodes form, and with the compelling tension that exists between the quiet of the landscape and the palpable vitality that flows through it. I am also fascinated with the medium I am working with – how it looks when applied to a surface is as important to me as the image it forms. I think of the painted stroke as a visual language.

I often work with landscape because it encourages my connection to the world around me. By spending time in an environment I am able to steep myself in it, bringing back to my studio specific color harmonies and a sense of light and of movement through the landscape. Translating that relationship into paint, I can best reveal both an inner experience and a sense of place.”