Jul-30-2010
Statement
Somewhere along the way I absorbed the idea that composition is the one thing an artist can call his or her own—that the way we put images and objects together is more likely to bear the imprint of our originality than the way we render or portray the individual things themselves. True or not, this idea has remained in my life with the persistence of truth. My large-scale interpretations of the western landscape deal as much with my inner landscape as they do with the outer lay of the land. The process of contemplation and inner reflection sparked by landscape interests me as much or more than the beauty of the scene.