Statement

The messy vitality of my visual artwork is often inspired by locations that include moving water, dramatic spaces, changing skies and shifting light. I relish the process – with its inherent anxieties --- of making the visual elements serve a larger idea or impulse. I start works as drawings or paintings on location and then continue in the studio, sometimes creating larger multilayered works that synthesize painted elements with fragments of photography and digital manipulation to better reveal the expressive possibilities of the scene.

The Adirondack region of New York inspires most of my work. It provides an amazing variety of motifs seen under constantly changing weather patterns - which has its own challenges. After painting in the area on and off over 40 years, the familiarity of the forms makes it easy to feel at home and make a personal statement with the work. I am currently working on a project, “Follow the Water,” that will present visual interpretations of the watershed of the Ausable River from the High Peaks region to Lake Champlain. I am also partial to the fascinating structures of cliff forms that can set up wonderful rhythmical structures with light or snow and reveal the forces of nature.