One thing we may all be able to agree upon is that we live in troubled times. In response, each of us deals with it in different ways. My paintings and drawings reflect my own peculiar way.
In these works, elements of the natural world such as rocks, sticks, animals, and particularly trees, provide the means to communicate my distress. As I paint, I dredge my innermost thoughts until they come to the surface in distilled fragments. I make marks on the surface until I stop, at which point the part of the work created in my isolated studio is complete.
But this does not mean the work is finished. Placed on the wall of a public space and released from my custody, the work comes into contact with the external world, the chaotic place where it began and where it remains—like the trees in the forest—open for interpretation.
Secondary education: Antioch College, Bennington College, Smith College, UMass
Creative influences (people): Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Édouard Vuillard, Philip Guston, Janice Nowinski
Creative influences (other): rural habitat, Buddhist philosophy
Favorite quote: “Until death it is all life.” -Miguel de Cervantes
