Inner Landscapes

The garden is a setting I turn to for contemplation and revisit often as a subject in my work. Intuition almost always takes the lead at a point in my process: a series of layers, color and marks, blending memory with the moment through the physical act of mark-making.  In this series, I am releasing the recognizable sooner than I have before--blurring the distinction between the figure and ground and dropping all references to perspective and the horizon. Botanical forms reassuringly repeat themselves throughout the natural world. A painting can connect a viewer to reality and an inner landscape simultaneously, offering a proxy for a memory.