Statement

I am an an American artist currently living in France and Switzerland. I approach painting as a means to show not just a place, but a mood or emotion that I felt when encountering it. Working from personal observation and photographs, my paintings take weeks to months to complete. I travel often – and my different art projects have taken me to India, Afghanistan, El Salvador, and across the entire US Mexico border.

These paintings reflect my interest in the way that the road delineates and controls how we experience landscape. From the roadway perspective, we not only travel from one place to another, we see landscape in a varied and complex manner. I use water on the windshield to create a shifting lens for the way we see the environment: it both highlights and obscures our viewing. These images are born out of real experience and have a close relationship with the medium of painting.