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Artist Statement

A crunching of rocks, the taste of berries off the bush, the prickling needles in your feet, the sunny spots between the trees, some boisterous birds’ chirps, sweat rolling off your shoulders, a mountaintop breeze rushing by, a distant rumble of a waterfall- these are the minutiae of the fabricated fictions I paint. The possibilities of my worlds allow for many stories to write themselves in your mind. Only imagination can determine what happens in the wild groves of trees, near the bottoms of lakes, or on the tops of mountains.

To send you on this adventure, I start by building worlds with one or two colors in mind. As I add details to my sketches, more and more colors populate the view and bring the scene to life. Lines of trails, rivers, and mountainsides lead the eyes around the world of the painting. The sketch becomes a final painting over several sessions of refinement, transforming blobs into depictions of slightly unreal locations.