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GALLERY
ARTIST STATEMENT In the name of progress and economic prosperity the natural world is being consumed and altered by human activity at an alarming rate. For many the sky is the last place for healing. Often the first direction our eyes focus on when looking or stepping outside is upward toward the heavens. The sky represents freedom - a glance at the sky frees us from the oppression of human made environments - while simultaneous it is the visual medium of an untamable autocratic force that dictates our daily behavior - the weather. We recognize and respect its power instinctively. The firmament spreads light. Light means life, light means hope. From stark naked blinding rays of sunlight beaming down from a steel blue sky on the austere landscape to subtle filtrations through clouds of infinite form and density , or through a suggestive thick atmosphere laden with moisture, rendering the light almost tangible, the richness of the expansive atmosphere is unlimited. The respect abiding power and amazing beauty in this constantly changing spectacle fills us with a feeling of personal insignificance and a certain powerlessness. I approach landscape painting with this in mind. The tensions that these emotions and our primal instincts create, and their healing power influence my work. They are transitive blinks by definition. Colors and forms are only suggestive, vague, almost ghostly remnants of memorized image s of what was seen in a blink. This economy of information forms a direct relationship to the choices offered between different possibilities of what is perceived. These bare essentials can often be interpreted in different ways. It does not matter what it appears to be because the relationship to the other clues in the painting remains the same - transitive.
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