STATEMENT
My paintings are about investigating the boundaries between the natural landscape, the human world, and the interior landscape of memories and associations. My painting process is largely intuitive, and I use materials that resist my control and move in unexpected directions, asserting themselves in the process. I layer and excavate, uncovering shapes, colors, and relationships, which become areas of focus, then recede or are covered over. The shapes, lines, and colors in my work begin as gestures towards the natural and human worlds, yet as the paintings develop these worlds become refracted and clouded by upwellings of memories and associations.
My finished paintings bear the marks of a history in their overlapping lines, scrapes, and layers. Traces of the process are visible in the finished work while other areas are obscured, covered over, left unresolved. In the end, there are traces of references to the natural and human worlds in my paintings, but the work comes to point more towards an interior, as opposed to an exterior, landscape.