Washington State Pleinair Painter
“I don’t create because I choose to — I create because I have to. My work is a response to life itself. Art has shaped me from my earliest memories — drawing in a sketchbook at age three — through my education, friendships, and opportunities. It forms the foundation of who I am, and it will remain a part of me for the rest of my life.”
Recent Work
Completed at Padilla Bay Upland Trail, in acrylic and spray paint. This piece further explores the previous texture based subject matter in a up close point of view. Getting to focus on small details that make up these larger shapes, with multiple types of plants intertwining and intersecting is perfect to highlight my layering techniques and abilities, getting to use color, shape and the opaque layers of spray paint to play with your sense of what is close up and further back.
Completed at Rasar State Park over 5 days. This multimedia piece created in acrylic paint and spray paint was aimed at capturing the textures and colors of fall. This subject matter choice and subject decision is a result of being to specific before with prior work. I’d been trying to exclusively paint water, rivers or streams but given the restrictions and availability I decided to paint this tightly packed texture because everything is worth painting, I decided creating work quickly is better then creating the work I think is important. This is a series I will certainly continue through different seasons, finding its easy, it tells a story both of that areas, the season and allows me to play with technique, scale and will be easy to paint in winter.
Pleinair Air: To paint outside in open air and light.
Each canvas is born outdoors, painted on location in the rivers, mountains, and forests of the Pacific Northwest. Living nomadically, I carry my work into these places — camping for days at a time, letting weather, light, and silence push their way into the painting.
