Nature stuns me with its unfathomable immensity. I am constantly drawn to learn from it, as it reveals new dimensions that either eluded me before or now hold a deeper significance.

The paintings become landscapes that I inhabit while working. Each painting surprises me, transporting me into its own visceral world.

When I am painting, wet paper and paint free me to dive in. I follow nature’s organic vitalities, relationships, hues, and patterns. Flow and constant change pull me forward. Rather than pictures of things, the artworks are a record of my engagement with the natural world, and with the process I am involved in.

I love chromatic neutrals, and use the richness of those pigment mixes to explore depth. The colors that make up the darkness are so intriguing to me, and I am passionate about exploring both light and darkness.

The paintings are unique and irreproducible, and while I can add layers, I cannot change what has gone before. I relish the immediacy of the processes.

I feel connected to something larger than myself when I am painting, that everything is already here, that my job is to be present. Painting is what I do with the awe I feel.

clip showing a bit about my process:

 

A clip showing how mixing complementary brights can make a chromatic neutral.

clip about my gelliplate monotype process: