Artist's Statement

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My work is the result of playful exploration.  It begins when a moment in nature stops me in my tracks and leads me to a state of awe.  Often it is the intersection of two things existing in the same space that grabs my attention.  Sometimes it is the fragment of a second when the clouds part and the light changes.  I can be driving, walking down a wooded path, chatting with a friend, and suddenly there it is: the beautiful and majestic world we inhabit revealing itself to me.  My process of interpretation is through experiment.  I often ask myself things like “how much is enough to express the feeling of a time weathered boulder being carved by transparent water?” or “What is billowing?  What is stark?  What is shocking?”  And then more importantly, “What happens if I…” The art is a relic of those observations and questions as they manifest on paper.