Rather than render outdoor scenes with specific accuracy, I work from memory and imagination in my studio to expressively and fluently create paintings of the land, sea, and sky through broad or simplified gestures that balance between realism and abstraction. I am interested in landscape painting as a structure of integrated parts, as an arrangement of abstracted elements that “read” as a landscape tableau but suggest more with less visual information.

I am also interested in depicting weather. In this work, a concentrated patch of rain pours down from heavy clouds that dominate the top half of the composition. The broad horizon emerges as a bright light source against the suggestion of hills and terrain in the foreground. This landscape as a specific place is more about a moment felt.