throughout my career the landscape has been my guiding orientation. whether i’ve tried to reduce its complexity to bands and gestures or to focus intently on a particular aspect, my motive has always been to suggest something fundamental and primal. my impulse comes from a simple belief in the restorative qualities in nature. in the american tradition of thoreau to frederick edwin church to arthur dove and others, i include myself among those trying to expose and explore the transcendental relationship we have with the natural world.

coming of age in the late 20th century, after the example and sacrifice of the abstract expressionists, i came to also believe in their faith in improvisation as a more direct link to the unconscious and therefore to an expression more personal and honest. my technique follows; try anything.

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