I have returned to landscape after 20 years as an abstract painter. Abstraction informs my work, while the process of making these watercolor paintings and oil pastel drawings begins in black and white en plein air. These reference works are the source material for the studio work but I am constantly returning to observation of the landscape for the influence of light and gesture.

Landscape, and especially watercolor landscape, carries the baggage with it of potential cliche, kitchy, hobbyist interpretation. I fully embrace the challenge of these associations by purposely working in watercolor but hope to completely push the boundary of expectation.

My images create an ordered chaos of the natural world. The repetition of marks and pattern suggest a reverberation --inherent in time and movement -- like waves of sound, which echo infinitely. My works combine perception in the moment, memory of past space and aspiration of future place. I perceive landscape with synaesthesia: I experience the varied textural elements within each space as sound. The sensory stimuli in nature trigger auditory as well as visual sensations. In these works, loosely interpretive observational gesture meets abstract mark-making. Textures abound in a myriad of rhythms, reflecting a symphonic sense of the compilation of time and space.