My indulgence with color and mark is central to my work in drawing. From the beginning of the drawing until the work is finished, I am unrestricted. Free to draw in response to my imagination, to the world around me, or to the marks on the paper in front of me. It works best for me to have as many colors as possible to choose from. At all costs, I avoid the burden of pre-planning and over-thinking. Working with ink on paper, I intuitively explore methods of abstraction and representation of landscape.
Through line and shape, I explore the traces, modifications, distortions, destructions, transformations and reconstruction of landscape. The work reveals the interior and exterior of both man-made and natural environments. My imagery depicts both a familiar and imagined world, where recognizable subjects of rivers, mountains and gardens are deconstructed utilizing color, pattern, and form. I am inspired by fact, fiction, and first impressions of the world around me. Mountains, rivers, greenhouses, and kitchen gardens become the manufactured stages on which complex narratives play out
