Artist’s Statement

My recent paintings and woodcuts portray expansive spaces that echo nature’s patterns and their irregular and compelling rhythms.

Waves, dunes, shell markings, and the dots and stripes of animal hides inspire my invented forms. What I find fascinating, and visually arresting is how each wave seems to announce the next while each is different. As waves break across a surface, they hold our attention through rhythmic repetition and marked or subtle variation.

To make the finite surfaces of my images suggest vastness and invite absorbed contemplation, I draw on the variety I observe in nature and the expressive possibilities of my craft. Each mark—whether a brushstroke or a hand-printed woodcut impression—is rooted in the layer beneath it, allowing forms to emerge from the background with an Impressionist-like vibrating edge. This airy vibrance, combined with the movement implied by the forms, creates the sensation of living matter.

More than form, it is the sensation my images procure that reminds us of being in nature. The intriguing technique draws viewers in and renews our awareness that we are not merely detached observers, as our technological age can lead us to believe. They offer a visceral reminder that we are indeed nature. The unfamiliarity of the invented forms and the general abstraction intensify a sense of discovery and of being alive.