I am a landscape painter who defines the term landscape rather broadly to include the natural world beyond our senses and current capabilities of observation and understanding. Interested in the luminous and the sublime as qualities uniquely found in nature, I experiment with representing those qualities through multiple techniques of paint applications and mark-making. I am particularly influenced by artists from two great American painting traditions who also sought the sublime - 19th Century Transcendentalist landscape painting and Abstract Expressionism. Like them, I work specifically with color to influence the viewers' perception of space and matter. Using multi-layered, sculpturally applied paint in limited color fields over a smooth substrate, I build a painting that becomes a highly textured object. Thick layers of paint are laid down with painting knives in a "call and response" technique, meaning that each paint layer is a direct response to the ridges and dips of the previous layer. The more deviated surface features show up through several subsequent layers of paint. By building up layers of paint in this way, I am also creating a visual metaphor for the layers of the natural history of our world.

My process dwells in a space where nature exists as both an abstraction and a dear companion. Intellectualization becomes fused with something approaching an intimate ecstasy. Through concentrated observation of the natural phenomena in my surroundings, I deepen my understanding of the larger system as a whole. My artwork is an act of witness, a testament to the power of nature and the importance of our connection to it.