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My work is generated from observation, the passage of time, and layering the current with the past. My father sold chemicals for the construction industry. I was taken to job sites and industrial plants, situated in ports close to major cities. I saw vistas of bridges, smoke, metal, intense lighting, noise, and water. I also spent a lot of time on my own, outside in rural upstate New York. We lived in an area which experienced the lake effect, softening the landscape, turning it wet, translucent, and quiet. We had a garden where I witnessed growth and decay up close. These sensory experiences made an impression. They have shaped my understanding of light, color, and the landscape. My paintings explore how time, climate change, and atmospheric conditions like extreme weather and light affect both the inner and exterior landscape, large and small, and illuminate the process of growth and entropy within the natural world. This particular work, Put an Edge on it, was also informed by the writing of Hilary Mantel. Her exploration of the timelessness of human beings at war with themselves and the natural world coupled with our capacity for thought and transcendence stayed with me while making this painting
