I think of my work as the space in-between the representational and non-representational. Images informed in part by my memories of a place, the forest and nature, glorified within my emotions and minds eye. The natural world has always had my attention as an artist, previously painting large flowers and still life’s, reflections of a loose representation, partly abstract. My continued work focuses in on the forest, on wood and canvas panels, sometimes starting on paper, then moving into paint. Images come from the forest fires in California and the natural forest I often see in the Blue Hills near my home.
My work is making a connection to the physical sensory internal static of the physical, stepping into the unseen forest. The forest touches the phenomenological nature of my being, an image that you cannot smell, you cannot feel or touch, but remember well. These memories of being, the spiritual connection we all feel toward nature a shared moment on the canvas.