Paths + Waterways a series of Sixteen Paintings

Places have a memory, a history, a feel that we connect with. These memories, like faint echoes, are revealed as light moves across the landscape, transforming the color and texture of a place. It is these moments and experiences that I capture in my atmospheric landscape paintings. For this series, I wanted to stay close to home taking note of the beauty while on my daily walks through the city parks or around my favorite coastal spots. These paintings trace the effect light has on a location, how it leaves its mark on the landscape, how it illuminates the essence of nature -- creating different moods, transforming a scene, drawing us in, focusing our gaze, changing the temperature physically and emotionally, and capturing movement. Combined, these elements seek to communicate the feeling and memories of a place. My paintings are a snapshot of a particular moment in time. Recording these moments is an act of resistance documenting places that are threatened by increased urbanization and catastrophic climate change. They are a call to preserve these places and a reminder of the important symbiotic relationship that we have with nature.