Painting is like trying to catch up with someone
who is always leaving a room just as you enter it.
I feel I'm running as I paint, working to get the
energy onto canvas before it goes away.
The paintings are a process of discovery.
They lead me along, challenging me, forcing
me to give away pieces I like for the good of
the whole, telling me when they are finished.
Like artist Jim Dine, a painter who has inspired me for
twenty years, I need "something to hang paint on."
I've always been drawn to the outdoors, to all the
pieces that make up the natural world. I love landscape,
and all the small parts of the landscape. I draw from the
marks on rocks and stone, the shape of a twig or branch.
I love openings that spill light into dark and give entrance
to spaces beyond those defined by walls.
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