Growth, Chapter __3__: The Quiet and the Animals, 2025
Can you listen?
See?
Rest?
Absorb, internalize, and respond?
Art gives me movement, recollection, lines, form, and intricacies; as too does the natural land and the plants and animals that live on it.
The seasons, they change; the birds, they migrate; the deer and the elk grow and shed their antlers. The air rings with the lyrics of the Spring birds and the Winter chatter of the magpies.
And, art, art, both gives me a chance to explore those moments and intersections of media. It gives a visual for my thoughts and allows exploration of questions.
Can you listen?
See?
Rest?
Absorb, internalize, and respond?
Art gives me movement, recollection, lines, form, and intricacies; as too does the natural land and the plants and animals that live on it.
The seasons, they change; the birds, they migrate; the deer and the elk grow and shed their antlers. The air rings with the lyrics of the Spring birds and the Winter chatter of the magpies.
And, art, art, both gives me a chance to explore those moments and intersections of media. It gives a visual for my thoughts and allows exploration of questions.
Growth, Chapter __2__ : The Land and Life, Subset - Imbued with the Horse, 2023
We live on this record of time, nourishing our current existence on the surface of ecological history. As such, this present will shape the future landscape. We drink from it, we eat of it, we walk on it; it shapes the bodies of all living things, and thus the minds and spirits. From the ground, those remnants of pressure and life, we receive a transfer of energy. Uncovering the layers and studying the geological columns yields the before. Water, the living, wind...all of these create and inform our movements of today.
In this chapter of work, the histories of both art and the land come into play. I am studying the mathematical tools of composition and the relations found in the cross-sections of measurements and equations. Using this as a framework, I then turn to the physical influences that capture me, specifically, the landscape and the life, referenced as horses and plants, found on such. Symbolism plays heavily into my choices of line structure, color gradations, and value.
We live on this record of time, nourishing our current existence on the surface of ecological history. As such, this present will shape the future landscape. We drink from it, we eat of it, we walk on it; it shapes the bodies of all living things, and thus the minds and spirits. From the ground, those remnants of pressure and life, we receive a transfer of energy. Uncovering the layers and studying the geological columns yields the before. Water, the living, wind...all of these create and inform our movements of today.
In this chapter of work, the histories of both art and the land come into play. I am studying the mathematical tools of composition and the relations found in the cross-sections of measurements and equations. Using this as a framework, I then turn to the physical influences that capture me, specifically, the landscape and the life, referenced as horses and plants, found on such. Symbolism plays heavily into my choices of line structure, color gradations, and value.
Growth, Chapter ___1___: Next Issue - Aligned within Historical Presence of Geological and Conscious Time, 2022
The visual holds an elusive allure, and in the act of creation and the evolving problem-solving nature of such, lies the continuance of expressing a constancy of thoughts and experiences. In the process of combining history (be it land-borne or human-constructed) with the here, the now, the life of the present, I find an ever-resulting intersection of connections and interactions.
The horses, they figure as the main sentiment in my work. Horses are life; they are beauty, honesty and singularity. And then comes the art: for the extensions on truth, for philosophy, for control and chaos, for science and math.
The visual holds an elusive allure, and in the act of creation and the evolving problem-solving nature of such, lies the continuance of expressing a constancy of thoughts and experiences. In the process of combining history (be it land-borne or human-constructed) with the here, the now, the life of the present, I find an ever-resulting intersection of connections and interactions.
The horses, they figure as the main sentiment in my work. Horses are life; they are beauty, honesty and singularity. And then comes the art: for the extensions on truth, for philosophy, for control and chaos, for science and math.
Where it Starts, er, Started, As It Were, 2015
When I approach a painting, it is with the understanding that it is not only my hand creating the piece, but also the subject and its complex histories and the moment in which I am working. Each entity breathes its own influence into the art. This entanglement of art and life is the nature of my work. It is with great respect that I step into each encounter and with great excitement and appreciation that I inhabit each painting.
My work explores the rhythm that surrounds us: the connectivity, the interactions, the dependency. Wide expanses of the land afford me the opportunity to study the lines that I see…the wind-swept edges of snow, the eroded surfaces of sandstone and vast ridges of mountains. I am intrigued by the meeting of the planes in a crisp, sure edge. I seek a harmonious flow - the bending grass, the lines of color and texture in an animal and the inherent nature of a place and being. The natural environment inspires the combination of my techniques of layering colors and textures with the blending of smoothly transitioned paint.
When I approach a painting, it is with the understanding that it is not only my hand creating the piece, but also the subject and its complex histories and the moment in which I am working. Each entity breathes its own influence into the art. This entanglement of art and life is the nature of my work. It is with great respect that I step into each encounter and with great excitement and appreciation that I inhabit each painting.
My work explores the rhythm that surrounds us: the connectivity, the interactions, the dependency. Wide expanses of the land afford me the opportunity to study the lines that I see…the wind-swept edges of snow, the eroded surfaces of sandstone and vast ridges of mountains. I am intrigued by the meeting of the planes in a crisp, sure edge. I seek a harmonious flow - the bending grass, the lines of color and texture in an animal and the inherent nature of a place and being. The natural environment inspires the combination of my techniques of layering colors and textures with the blending of smoothly transitioned paint.
