Artist Statement

Flickering between a tangible landscape space and visualized daydreams, my paintings survey psychological terrains. The paintings explore the issues of memory, reflection, space, and place through the use of imagined landscapes. Fragments of landscape imagery, fantastical maps, architectural elements, and modern design are juxtaposed, re-constellated, and conjoined to establish new systems. These systems search for connections between tangible external environments and the intangible interior space of thought and memory.

My recent paintings are explorations of imagined landscapes infused with modernist design. Both elements are intertwined, co-dependendent, and contiguous. Unexpected scenarios occur within the work. Bauhaus designs grow from shrubs, de Stijl explosions occur alongside gothic castles, and quilt-blanket forts sprout from the underbrush of tangled branches. Depicted spaces are presented as layers of thought, fractured, expanding out and folding back upon themselves.

I employ the utilization of representational space with abstract moments as a means of providing a catalyst for psychological reflection. The interaction between objects and spaces within my paintings act as points of convergence between perceived space and introspective thought. These points reference portals into imaginative drifts and deeper introspections; metaphors for the expansion of our perceived reality. Ordinary experience is transformed to a more symbolic or visionary level and human consciousness is taken into accord.