Where I'm Coming From: Back to Nature

One of my objectives is to depict nature as I experience it on some level, reaching for something transcendent - something that isn't merely a slavish re-creation of a scene for which a photograph might suffice. Whether working from a sketch, a photo, a memory, or some hybrid of memory and imagination, I usually paint scenes that are absent the obvious imprint of humanity. Sometimes this entails removing people or their things from a beach scene, for example. Sometimes there's a story; sometimes just a glimpse of a scene intended to evoke deeper memories and appreciations of a natural world we too often turn our back to....