2023

Pastel

The Driftless area of Wisconsin/Southeast Minnesota where I live and find inspiration: the region’s bluffs, rivers and roads and roads inform my work. When I travel, I find parallels with these landscape forms, as Norwegian fjords echo Mississippi River bluffs. Painting and drawing serve as vehicles for connecting more deeply with the self and with nature, through its process and physicality. Like nature itself, I view the process of painting as transformative (both physically and philosophically) as light shifts and colors blend, creating new perceptions and experiences. Conceptually I am interested in the way we as individuals and as a society identify with and define notions of landscape through travel, place-specificity, and ecological imperatives.