“The real journey of life is not discovering new lands but seeing with new eyes.” Marcel Proust
Artist Statement
All of life’s meaning can be found by walking through the woods. It is there I witness it’s exuberance and impermanence…and that experience and knowledge informs my art.
I create collage paintings on reinforced watercolor paper with torn or rough cut irregular edges. I draw, splatter and drip with acrylic ink and paint creating a surface rich with texture, color and movement; then I enlarge on the composition with torn paper scraps, fiberglass screen and debris.
My trees grow from the tangled undergrowth determined to survive but eventually failing, their offspring rising in their place, reminding us that life is short, impermanent, to be lived now.
With my 3-D work, I bring fragments of the woods inside, creating a fresh viewpoint. I love to hunt for treasures, to unearth objects long lost and forgotten – bed coils, rusted wheel rims. Sometimes the unnatural materials have taken on the appearance of the natural world; I marry the two – blurring the line between them.
The visual richness of growth and decay, the seemingly fragile, chaotic undergrowth set against the strength and structure of the trees’ trunks – that mysterious jumble of energy – draws me to work in the landscape genre.
Artist Statement
All of life’s meaning can be found by walking through the woods. It is there I witness it’s exuberance and impermanence…and that experience and knowledge informs my art.
I create collage paintings on reinforced watercolor paper with torn or rough cut irregular edges. I draw, splatter and drip with acrylic ink and paint creating a surface rich with texture, color and movement; then I enlarge on the composition with torn paper scraps, fiberglass screen and debris.
My trees grow from the tangled undergrowth determined to survive but eventually failing, their offspring rising in their place, reminding us that life is short, impermanent, to be lived now.
With my 3-D work, I bring fragments of the woods inside, creating a fresh viewpoint. I love to hunt for treasures, to unearth objects long lost and forgotten – bed coils, rusted wheel rims. Sometimes the unnatural materials have taken on the appearance of the natural world; I marry the two – blurring the line between them.
The visual richness of growth and decay, the seemingly fragile, chaotic undergrowth set against the strength and structure of the trees’ trunks – that mysterious jumble of energy – draws me to work in the landscape genre.
