Energetic, intuitive mark-making and an emotional, process-driven approach to painting characterize my recent work, which is based on a personal exploration of landscape through abstraction. While there have been forays into figurative work, still life and pure abstraction, over the past ten years landscape is what has emerged as my main focus--primarily because of a desire to capture and share an essence of place. I move back and forth between painting a place to capture how it appears, and visually referencing that place as an energetic abstracted depiction of my own experience of it. Hence, my work varies from recognizable landscape locations to layered, emotionally-driven abstractions that reflect my feelings about a place.Working in a consciously-unconscious manner and playing with a bold palette, my intention with this work is to visually ignite memory, question, and mystery about the personal and emotional places we seek.

In my earlier mixed-media sculpture (2006-2014), I was interested in posing visual questions regarding the nature of relationship- between natural materials, physical and emotional tension, and metaphor. Natural materials such as bones, branches, saplings, grapevine, moss, stones, and sheep’s fleece, along with paper, canvas, wire, and found and altered objects comprise my three-dimensional work. The viewer is invited to address his or her own relationship to the energy, materials, symbolism and metaphors that await discovery.

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