MY ARTWORK is intended to engage, inspire, and entertain, provoking viewers to pause and reconsider some aspect of the natural world. My paintings celebrate the natural world in all its complexity, contradictions, and messiness. I am drawn to the subtle patterns, textures, and shapes that comprise my landscape, and the endless variations of light and color that suffuse objects according to season, weather, and time of day. At the same time, my body of work protests our relentless compulsion to quantify, digitize, and categorize every aspect of modern life. I reject my culture’s steady retreat from sensory experience outside an ever more narrowly defined comfort zone. In my paintings I oppose orthodoxy and formula, asserting not just the individual’s right, but the imperative to cultivate an active life off the grid, engaging directly with the physical world. In addition to painting, I have prior experience as a photographer, video producer, writer, and editor.
