Playing on the edge between realistic representation and abstraction, the work begins with documenting the landscape. The photographs often capture a lone tree, fields, bushes, groupings of trees, the dense forest, wide open spaces, and changing skies. The photographs are anecdotal in feel - the random, non-precious recordings of a moment.
During the translation of the image onto canvas, the painted surface is manipulated by literally pushing paint at different intervals, creating an elasticity that alludes to a landscape in motion, lending a cinematic overtone and a gestural energy.
The paintings get at the blur that is time - a fleeting moment, a flash, a streak of paint racing too fast, an image lost as quickly as it is found.
A contemporary take on landscape, the finished work relates as much to imagination, colour and ethereal space as it does to the visible world itself.
