Current Work

“Slowness is one attribute that the internet cannot wrench from painting”. Yve-Alain Bois

 In my current work I am wrestling with question of how digital tools are changing the way I see, the way I remember and the way the audience reads an image.  The beauty of the act of creating a painting or experiencing a painting is the slowness.  But we live in a speed warp of images.  How can a painting speak to those two forces simultaneously?

 At present the experiment is to apply a process in which I recycle the work through multiple processes using various tools and media: Iphone photos, sketches of photos, sketches on site, paintings of photos, scans of a painting of photos, painting atop photos or scans, etc. Anything goes. I  move from large-scale painting filled with gesture to small scale works requiring intimate viewing and back out again.  Returning over and over to the central image source.

While much of my work is rooted in the experience of nature and the history of landscape, my paintings are mostly about painting.  Color, the flatness of the surface, the materials interacting in surprising ways: these tools have infinite possibility for expression.  I am fascinated by the way painting has survived multiple “deaths” as an art form.  The tradition absorbs whole movements and media within itself and continues on as powerful force in art history. 

I am painting to find my place in that tradition of survival.