Luna's Surge

Luna's Surge is part of the Tempest Series my current body of work. Landscape is important to me since I grew up in a rural setting in Pennsylvania. I am interested in nature, the horizon line and the tension between sky and water. These influences spearhead my interest in the fusion of landscape painting with abstraction. The Texas landscape inspires me with the flatness of the land and big sky. I work spontaneously, with specific memories and references in mind in the manner of the Romantics. I enjoy the physicality of the paint and am interested in the ambiguous spaces I create through abstraction.

Photographs are often collaged into the work to introduce a varied vocabulary and space. The photographs act as another layer of mark making and are suggestive of an ambiguous narrative. This pairing releases representational areas within the work from their descriptive function, creating a dynamic spatial relationship with the whole.