My paintings are exploratory. While I paint to give life to my idea for an image, I remain half without expectation, responsive to new opportunity, beholden to intuition and faithful that my best big mess will invite discovery. For me, painting is much more than simply a way to duplicate an image or an idea- it is a way to have a relationship with the subject. My subjects in these works are places I’ve been. Though they are landscapes, they are also mindscapes. They embody both my initial connection to the land, revealing those things that drew me in, and even more so the spiritual forays of their births on paper. This process is a deeper exploration of a places, it’s about locating their souls. In this work it seems as though there are three arenas at play, the true inspiration, (the places themselves) my inner distillation, (a reactionary process) and finally, the works themselves present their own new reality. To complete a work, I have to trust that it performs with honesty in the way in which it represents my occasion, both real and imagined. Oh, and it has to be beautiful to me. Gallery360