Having grown up in the Seattle area I developed a much keener connection to wilderness in natural settings than I did to cultural ones, but after visits to Europe, and thanks to some effective art teachers, I quickly took to the practice of painting as a medium that navigates my relationship to both nature and culture.
My work, and understanding of painting, changes along with my skills, intellect, and emotional development. Issues of order, control, intuition, rational materialism, and animism all posses me as seemingly contradictory paradigms that in some way exist together.
Intrigued by the harmonious aesthetics of pre-colonial cultures, European traditions of picture making,and perceptual understandings; the painters' canvas for me is a sort of meditative stone on which the battles of consciousness are illuminated. Beauty, and the wholesome powers it possesses is pursued, but not at the expense of intelligence, nor with the tools of make-believe.
My work, and understanding of painting, changes along with my skills, intellect, and emotional development. Issues of order, control, intuition, rational materialism, and animism all posses me as seemingly contradictory paradigms that in some way exist together.
Intrigued by the harmonious aesthetics of pre-colonial cultures, European traditions of picture making,and perceptual understandings; the painters' canvas for me is a sort of meditative stone on which the battles of consciousness are illuminated. Beauty, and the wholesome powers it possesses is pursued, but not at the expense of intelligence, nor with the tools of make-believe.
