ARTIST STATEMENT

“I am interested in work that resides in both objective and non-objective worlds. I am equally attracted to gestures and non-descriptive marks as well as the power and ambiguity of symbols and images. Painting inhabits a place between the known and the unknown. My work draws from an inventory of images that make multiple, yet varied references allowing for content to shuffle, reinvent, and remake itself. Art, for me, does not provide answers but rather provokes questions and seeks possibilities. As an image-maker, I am interested in the intersection of figuration and abstraction.

“Land imagery honors a specific location while also seeking, through abstraction, multiple layers of entrance and ambiguity for the viewer. What matters most is to create a painterly dialogue between image, shape, color, tactile surface, and space. The end result, the painting, evokes a journey of discovery and imagining.”

- Wendell Arneson

Gatekeeper #29

2022 | oil on paper | $900.00 image: 13 x 12" | frame: 26 x 24”

Spring Creek Illumination

2022 | oil on paper | $900.00 image: 11 x 14" | frame: 24 x 26”

Spring Creek Pond

2022 | oil on paper| $900.00 image: 14 x 11" | frame: 27 x 24”

Spring Creek Sunset 2022 | oil on paper| $900.00 image: 13 x 12" | frame: 26 x 24”

Spring Creek Sunset #2

2022 | oil on paper| $900.00 image: 13 x 12" | frame: 26 x 24”

Seasonal Flow

2022 | oil on paper| $1,500.00 image: 26 x 12" | frame: 36 x 21” INQUIRE

Spring Creek Structures

2022 | oil on paper| $900.00 image: 13 x 12" | frame: 26 x 24”

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Insert 2022 | oil on paper| $900.00 image: 13 x 12" | frame: 26 x 24”

Insert #2

2022 | oil on paper| $900.00 image: 11 x 14" | frame: 24 x 26”

Gatekeeper #34

2022 | oil on paper| $900.00 image: 13 x 12" | frame: 26 x 24”

Rise and Fall

2023 | oil on canvas| $3,400.00 image: 43 x 46" | frame: 44 x 47”

Meadow Markings

2023 | oil on paper| $900.00 image: 13 x 12" | frame: 26 x 24” INQUIRE

January Map

2023 | oil on paper| $900.00 image: 26 x 11" | frame: 36 x 21”

Overlooking Dawn 2023 | oil on canvas| $2,800.00 image: 36 x 36" | frame: 37 x 37”

Gatekeeper #36

2023 | oil on paper| $900.00 image: 11 x 14" | frame: 24 x 26”