This particular body of work is sourced in the natural landscape where I live. Walking into nature armed with a camera is the first action I take.
Back in the studio there is a point at which observation stops and something else takes over. Once that threshold of abstraction is crossed a re-shaping of elements can begin. I am intrigued with pulling new situations of place from the painting process. In doing so I find myself cultivating a space that is fluid and plastic enough to navigate.
The landscape structure with which I begin acts like an irregular grid system, allowing for improvisation to occur in segments while the whole maintains a direct linkage to its initial impetus. These paintings then are naturally aspirated systems which embody the alloverness and irregularity of nature. Indeed there is a certain abstract power inherent in nature upon which their survival depends.