Through my painting process, I am attempting to move ever deeper into the mystery, past the words and labels that lay to rest the subject at hand. This requires a multisensory approach, objective and non-objective, conscious and unconscious attention simultaneously. Through my paintings, I am continually exploring how nature, essential and primal, is a tuning fork for all life. I am in awe of the primal rhythms and instinctual intelligence common to all life forms. This is a VAST energy system period. I believe that, to the extent that we turn our backs on the fundamental laws of nature we will undermine life, as we know it, fall out of harmony and out of communion with what sustains life.
As an artist, this understanding is the foundation of everything I do, whether a landscape, portrait or seascape. I must choose to be open to life's energy, intrigued by its mystery and reassured by its continuity.