Statement

Place and the complex of spatial layering are the determinants with which I work.  Paint often becomes subject as I use formal elements of the artist’s language to address how paint is moved and acted upon, how space and place are further defined by materiality. 

Long interested in land as place and as a natural placement of forms, I document sections of the country from aerial flights, and extract views of fields and orchards as readymade drawings from which to determine what defines place. From the expansive I select, reduce and compress a microcosm of line and shape.

Forms of enclosure and containment have become a continuing lexicon as commentary on life choices we make... of edge, of boundary, of bounty. Here vessel forms become the orchard itself, multiple repositories of fruit, foundations for trees arranged in their linear paths. It is as if they are offerings made, received, held and in turn stored or given over.

A rhythm moves through my studio as I work, repetition of form and line taking on the same patterns of breathing. What is reduced and refined in the practice of painting leaves room for that eloquent mystery of stillness.