Chance Encounters / Artist Statement
My art is an elegiac response to natural phenomena: water, earth, and plant life. I move between the edge of
representation and abstraction, capturing the essence of landscape in a mark. The paintings refer to both the
seen and imagined; the marks and pools of paint transform the landscape into metaphors for tenacious life in
which some species thrive and others disappear. Swaths of pure fluid color appear wave-like, close up, and then
fall into perspective at a distance, confounding and surprising the viewer.
I paint and edit simultaneously. I capture the growing and the dying with the fluidity of the medium. This work
celebrates the natural world and its ineffable mysteries, as we are aware of the possibility of potential disaster.
Even in the coming apart, there is great beauty.
