Our individual connection to our natural environment is a primary relationship that is common to all our lives. Our connection is primordial. The once quiet beauty of stillness and serenity found in open untouched fields or dense, lush forests or clear rushing water is being overtaken by urban sprawl where technology and modern habits have altered the landscape at an alarming rate. We are all experiencing the loss of landscapes that feed the soul and calm the spirit.  As an artist, I have come to understand my own creations as stemming from a strong desire to examine both the physical and emotional bonds to my personal environment. I set out to rediscover those quiet moments of connection to my environment. Documenting my external space as I go about my daily routines, I have sought to recapture those familiar, shared, felt moments with a sense of place.

I find that in simply “looking” at the surrounding landscape I am already shaping and interpreting my relationship with the physical environment. My prints explore the relationship of color on color and the shifting horizon lines as I move about in the natural environment. By contrasting static elements with fluid marks and defining the very basic division of space on the page, the world is portrayed in severely simplified images without many details. My work addresses landscape as the art of selection and balance and explores how representation can wander towards abstraction with my mind images progressing from the first impression of detailed precision to a printed image of a more gestural suggestion of luminous atmosphere. The subject matter ultimately evolves to become the water, the air, the stillness, and the moment spent in these found places.

The resulting prints are a pause or a moment spent in my sense of place and in turn the prints become an interval or a space for the viewer to respond to a sustained moment in perceived time.