Artist’s Statement

I make large-scale oil paintings that blend abstraction and organic figurativism to capture environmental transformation. Creating my paintings over months—and sometimes years—I use successive layers of paint to depict the dynamics of a season, of wind and waterways, of vegetation growing and dying, among other facets of the natural world.

My work is for people who see their environments not as a static backdrop, but as a site of relentless transition. In recognizing this constant change, viewers can understand themselves as part of an environment in flux.

As a longtime resident of New England, as well as a lifelong gardener, environmentalist, and educator, transformation is often at the forefront of my mind. In New Hampshire, where I have lived for the better part of four decades, a winter ice storm might rip the branches from trees, while a summer rain might send peonies into a riot of blossoms. To witness a landscape is to witness change; to capture this truth in a painting is another matter. I make my work to understand where I am—and, more significantly, my place within a world ever in motion.