It starts with a single tree in the landscape; assigned its latitude and longitude. Then the investigation begins. A transcription of not only the experience of being in and thinking about Nature, but also about the way in which we process the world around us, literally.
From the particular, the place itself: a topographic study involving measurement, proportion, negative space, positive forms. To the general: the idea of the thing rather than the thing itself, territory, light, space, sound.
Then, by subtraction, painting the experience of being there, letting only the major lines and colors of the landscape remain until, like the tree, its significance survives. A kind of modern map of an old world. And like maps, the paintings invite investigation into their white spaces by what they suggest and by what they hide.
From the particular, the place itself: a topographic study involving measurement, proportion, negative space, positive forms. To the general: the idea of the thing rather than the thing itself, territory, light, space, sound.
Then, by subtraction, painting the experience of being there, letting only the major lines and colors of the landscape remain until, like the tree, its significance survives. A kind of modern map of an old world. And like maps, the paintings invite investigation into their white spaces by what they suggest and by what they hide.
