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My work is in the American landscape painting tradition The symbolic use of light ties my painting
concerns
to the 19th and early 20th century painters. John Henry Twachtman, John Marin, Mardsen Hartley, The Impressionists, and the Fauves are among my heros. Important to me is the relationship of light and color to the natural
landscape that I am painting and also the formal concerns of color, shape, space, and the flatness of the picture plain.
I
also share many of the formal and aesthetic concerns of the color field painters of the 50's and 60's. Like them, I attempt to resolve artistic considerations involving a balance of pictorial flatness
and color formed or color structured space. If my work is successfull, the color structures create a sense of light or luminosity.
Color/light can then function on formal levels as well as metaphorically, symbolically, and hopefully poetically as well.
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