Abstraction, landscape’s vastness, and horizon are anchors for my work. I interpret landscape through an exploration of spatial relationships. Journey and movement have been of paramount influence in my experiencing varied landscapes. I often use photographs I have taken to collage into my work. The photographs act as another layer of mark making and are suggestive of an ambiguous narrative creating a secondary space within painting. My recent work explores the Big Bend region of Texas and making work on our remote property in Terlingua Ranch with an untouched landscape. The desolate, completely off grid landscape, and extremes needed for a sustained existence in the beautifully dangerous region of Texas are reminders of the power of nature. Thorough visits with my family to this remote property over the past four years, I have studied the evidence of water, erosion and learned the history of this over grazed nearly barren land.  It is a reminder of the preciousness of water and difficulty of survival in a land not easily accessible. The children and fabric accentuate this barren space.

 

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