landscapes

I try to create paintings that evolve out of a visual logic but whose outcomes are ultimately unplanned, striving to achieve an element of the “unnatural” and random and what Gerhard Richter calls “the untruthfulness of landscape.”

This latest body of work is an integral part of my continuing effort to explore landscape imagery and to bridge the formal gap between representation and abstraction. My intent is to divorce the landscape from narrative content, devoid of object and structure, filtered into an image where light and atmosphere become the true subject of the painting.

The physical and material presence of the piece is equally as important as the imagery in leading to its ultimate finished state. Through panel preparation, the viscosity of paint and layering of media and pigment I attempt to create paintings with a rich surface texture and a physical history that allows the work to function as more than two-dimensional images. I am interested in tonal relationships and subtle color interactions and try to create atmospheric images with a push/pull between intense clarity and unfocused haze as if seen through periphery.