I’m in search of the persistent, irreducible singularity of things — the essence of a split second of light that illuminates a space, a form — and then catch it before it’s gone!
I track down these moments usually far away from home in remote locations where unpredictable weather takes me in as it sweeps over untamed ground and water. These undisturbed places dissolve time and feel like a reunion with my inherited past.
Clouds are my initial guides with their limitless shapes in constant motion as they transform the landscape and seas below:
“Taking my weight from the ground
Falling deep in the sky
Slipping into the unknown”
-Peter Gabriel
Then back in the studio those exterior places move to far more personal territory, an emotional ride through drawing & composition. Memory and mood combine through fast application of paint in the final work — always surprising me by the new life it takes on.
It should be land, rock, water and sky but it’s paint; it should be paint, but behaves like weather; a few more strokes and I’m taking another direction. I shift things, and things shift me. When I finish, I’ve arrived at a place never seen before — far from where I started.