Landscapes

My paintings are begun out doors (plein air) and then finished in the studio working from photographs.  It is only natural, then, that contradictions and tensions would arise between the art work and the “reality of nature,” forcing a compromise between plein air painting’s emphasis on observation and the older tradition.  The unknowable, the unexplained, the metaphor, the romantic and the accidental are all part of my act of painting.  My attitudes and feelings are at the center of my artistic expression.  Because reality and perception are uniquely personal experiences, truth to the object or scene—i.e., to the actual—is relative.