Making art is a process of slowing down and seeing - absorbing and translating - filtering and creating something out of nothing. As a painter, I try to provide a visual forum for people to remember their cellular memories of living within the natural world. Living on the shores of Lake Ontario and near The Finger Lakes, there is an abundance of land forms to provide visual inspiration. Basically I paint, not exactly what I see, but what I remember of the land lines and tree forms; what I see between them, behind them, framed by them. The bits and pieces land jumble and...more