Speedwell Gallery, 2018
My sources are often derived from literature and history. I have a variety of disparate questions and investigations which include migrations, medical drawings, archeological and architectural remnants, astronomy, and more. Representations of these interests combine in a shape-shifting progression where one image morphs into another, can change but still hold an imprint of the prior idea.
The drawings are the skeletons of these ideas, a spontaneous and direct language. The drawings can be the laboratories for the paintings, which can then become more abstracted, reworked, and hopefully not overworked.
Dark December, 2018, Oil on Linen, 48 x 24”
Disappearance #1, 2017-2018, Oil on Linen, 56 x 30”
Disappearance #2, 2018, Oil on Linen, 56 x 30”
Fingerprints in Landscape, 2018, Oil on Linen, 56 x 30”
Flight, 2018, Oil on Linen, 56”x 30”
Traces, 2017-2018, Mixed Media on Linen, 56 x 30”
The Flood, 2018, Mixed Media, 22x10”
Landscape with Water #2, 2018 detail
Landscape with Water, 2018, Mixed Media, 54x12"
Waterfront #2, 2017-2018, Mixed Media, 61 x 11.5”
Soundless as Shadows #1, 2018 detail
Soundless as Shadows #2, 2018 detail
Soundless as Shadows #3, 2018, Mixed Media, 80”x 38.5”
Cove Street Arts, 2021
It is curious that I started off intending to do a series of paintings exploring the meanderings of fungi and instead I ended up in the cosmos. Maybe because they are both concerned with how interconnectedness affects outcomes, much like the butterfly effect. In their relative ways, they are both immense and unmapped. How can we begin to locate ourselves in the vastness and indifference of the Universe?
I have been waiting for years to see a UFO or a spaceship land, would it carry a very advanced type of life (or aliens as we call them) on board? Since they come probably from the same chemical mix as we do, I think they would be somewhat like us, these fellow space travelers. What would they think about our treatment of our blue planet and the consequences of our choices? Are they also leaving a desecrated planet and searching for a new home? I want to have a chance to ask them.
In looking back at our little blue planet, rotating in this immense space, how are we to think about the choices we have made? How have they affected the fabric of an intricate and connected environment?
