STATEMENT

My lyrical abstract paintings explore the ephemeral beauty of our changing natural world. Influenced by my native rural Rhode Island, my expressive canvases evoke the uncertain landscapes and wild flora where New England forests meet the Atlantic Ocean. My subdued palette lends itself to transitions of nuanced tones to convey the intimate spaces where woodland wildflowers persist in meadow edges.

Each painting begins with delicate, translucent layers that transform into compositions, each canvas becoming its own world, documenting specific moments of ecological disjunction. Through fluid, spontaneous brushstrokes, I form organic shapes that reflect our shifting environment, depicting natural forms in soft, muted shades.  I blend pigments to create a sense of serenity, infusing pieces with gentle movement and transience, often through various painting techniques that enhance a dreamlike quality in compositions that capture fleeting moments in nature or the experience of witnessing the subtle ways environmental shifts reveal themselves as quiet disturbances in familiar seasons.

My approach grows from early paintings where delicate layers of paint enclosed echoes of early New England literary voices, through environmental sculpture and pastel works on paper, elegiac images of ghostly wild flora against coal-black backgrounds. These works evoke remembrances of nature's impermanence.

The natural world has long been my artistic focus, evolving alongside deepening environmental consciousness and our entanglement with nature's increasingly unpredictable rhythms. My paintings invite viewers to pause and reflect, fostering contemplation of nature's vulnerability by revealing moments where vast global climate patterns emerge as local manifestations.