color field

My return to non-objective color field painting has been developing over the last few years as I have continued working on landscape.  It relates to my landscape work through an obsessive focus on surface, material depth and light, with each painting consisting of over forty layers of paint, pigment and media.

Through a focus on process, I try to instill each painting with a dynamic physical presence, where light, transparency, and depth are achieved not through representative imagery or trompe l’oeil illusion, but through the material nature of the painting itself. They exist as glowing monochrome blocks of color, with glazed surfaces that divulge depth of detail, movement and a structural history where shifts in tone and color, drips and cracks are hidden and revealed under various layers, with an element of the incidental that occurs between nature and control during the process. My goal is to make a beautiful painting, but one instilled with a sense of physicality and mass, that emanates as if producing its own light source, without reference to anything but itself, distilled to a state where the painting simply exists – free of representation or meaning.