about

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Mark making; drawing and painting are how I express my experience of places that still hold the memory of wildness.

Being out in nature brings life into perspective.

 I see Landscape as an expression of time, 

continuously created and destroyed through natural processes and also increasingly impacted in various ways by human events.

 The process of painting similarly expresses time through the visible layering and merging of marks and textures.

I use loosely drawn calligraphic marks and ink washes to lead into my painting process and
while I tend to want my work to appear effortless, I've found it’s often the residual evidence of trial and error and of the time involved in the making, that ultimately result in images with deeper resonance.

Some enduring influences include the philosophy and the evocative qualities of East Asian brush painting, the Impressionists' approach to light, and the earliest expressive marks, made with raw natural pigments smeared onto stone.