My paintings are a blending and balance of representation, abstraction and conceptualism. I have been inspired by the perfections of historical gardens, secret passageways of virtual video games and the transformation of environment. My focus is on change and it’s contradictions created by industrialization and modernity. Using bold flat color with natural light and shadow, a collision of perspectives, invented spaces and nonfigurative images are generated by intuition and instinct. A continuous, shifting phenomenon transforms notions of pictorial space to impressions of instability and inherently unpredictable experience.

I use mapping as a visual language to fuse divergent regions. Rhythms change irregularly, as if the image had been slightly shoved out of place. Double canvas paintings reinforce these juxtapositions. Their accidental encounters allow the pictorial spaces to both mix and contrast with one another while transcending their borders. Abstract associations reflect the tensions and confrontational realities of our contemporary world. They have neither subject nor object; they are a unification of plus and minus. While creating content from metaphorical representation, there are no answers, only interpretations of the changes confronting us.

Environmental influences are incredibly important to my work. Last spring, at The Ballinglen Foundation in Ireland, I was able to embed myself in my environment, creating quick, concrete watercolors that later became inventive tools for large conceptual paintings. I pulled from the prehistoric beauty of the coast and bog, as well as the absurd banality of recent abandoned mansion sites. The disorientation of location establishes a man-made place with landscape roots where a respect for the beauty of nature contrasts with a changing culture and environment.