"break to that big lake”, 2018

The theme of my current body of work is a translation of nature to abstraction. The recent acrylic paintings derive from breathing, moving through space outdoors, and detecting an organizing structure of shapes and colors underneath the seeming chaos of landscape, both natural and urban.

Equally important are color, texture, the materiality of the surface and paint, and the visible remnants of movement and gesture created by the brush and my arm. I’m attracted to the contrasts of controlled and unbounded, linear and loose, action and stillness, confidence and hesitation.