Landscapes

I'll never forget the time I saw a Turner painting up close. Visiting the Tate Britain on my first trip abroad, I was awestruck by Turner’s giant roiling landscapes with their dramatic evocations of light, color and movement. A friend and I, who painted at our easels side by side in our studio art courses at the state university, looked on in awe.

At 19, I was only beginning to discover the painting world. But something changed in me that day in London. Art, it seemed, was bigger and more mysterious than life. Now when I draw that first horizon line across a canvas, I feel the pull of a deeper world with every stroke, mark and burst of pigment. Many of my landscape paintings are inspired by places that touch me: the Southern California desert, the idyllic Charlevoix region of Quebec, and Gloucester, Mass., with its endless shoreline and gorgeous light. Taking an uninhibited approach, I seek to distill these environments to their purest beauty.