A place in light and time.

Landscape painting is a well-orchestrated effort to break down, understand and recreate space. I consider this task to be the biggest a painter can give themselves - making a viewer believe they’re viewing miles of space when they’re actually looking at a flat surface.

Painting from the land connects me to my surroundings and has heightened my awareness of structure and convergence in the natural world. My work presents atmosphere – an ephemeral sense of place, time and light. These delicate things and their interaction fail to be wholly described with traditional language. I aim to not only describe a place through my painting, but also to cultivate a connection within the viewer, making them not only recognize where I've been - but also what it felt like to be there at that moment.

Working both outdoors and from photographic studies, my process focuses on exposing, and sometimes exaggerating, the essential natural elements to create space. While I am a representational painter, this filtering of the unnecessary embodies the essence and origin of abstraction.

My work is more than a reproduction of nature; it seeks out and celebrates the essential spacial elements in the natural world.