INNER LANDSCAPES

My artwork is very much influenced by a passion for architecture, ecology, and the natural environment, and is a confluence of natural and architectonic forms. The built environment is central to my focus.

I conjoin elemental references of structure and city space; intermingling historical precedents, figure-ground studies of cities, miniature inhabitations, and imagined places into sculptures and paintings of constructed inhabitations and imagined worlds.

Most of my paintings are encaustic based, a medium I have worked with for over 25 years and started carving wood tree trunks and printmaking in 2014.

Building on past themes, my inner thoughts have been preoccupied with the cycles of the seasons, forestry, and climatic events, retaining an inner hope, and dreaming of new paradigms. My wood sculptures (since 2014) were influenced by my earlier paintings, and the new paintings inspired by the sculptures, are another step in the cycles of my life.