Artist Philosophy

I am currently investigating what landscape and romanticism means in this environment of uncertainty. During a time of change and crisis, people are waiting and contemplating this environment. In my art, I use the romantic language of abstraction to question the difficulty of relating natural laws to our current human condition.

I paint on long narrow surfaces, almost glass smooth. Paint flows on top of the surface like water over a smooth rocks. I move the paint around, creating small explosions and collisions. The paint seems to be building or waiting for answers.

Waiting gives you time to think about questions. One question that I continually investigate is, what does it mean to paint the landscape at this moment of time? I am not looking for a single answer. However, I am interested in investigating potential answers.

When I move the paint around on the surface I create new marks that become a landscape with its own history, governed by the laws of nature. I have left enough room for an unexpected event to happen, to throw everything off, and to provide evidence of human influence. The panoramic view of the landscape gives the big picture of the patterns and the history of the marks, bringing me back to the moment of waiting.

This romantic conversation about landscape is metaphorically relevant to the recent down turn that has bulldozed many industries to the ground. We are waiting, and asking questions, in order to begin to create a new history.