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"REFLECTION ON WATER"

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"This past year I’ve been drawn to paint water. Running water or frozen snow and ice, settled in a pond or hidden in riparian vegetation. Until I pulled together my paintings for this show, I didn’t realize I was painting water. 

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Perhaps it was so unconscious because I intuitively select a place to paint by feeling drawn to be there, in that spot, to absorb and transfer images onto canvas. Often it’s not about a spectacular iconic image, rather a more personal, close-up vista, a sheltering place. Many of these paintings are places near water and the riparian thickets of vegetation that roll up and out to the skyline.

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Maybe in this time of social controversy and political conflict, the wetlands provided a hopeful place.

 

The sounds of running water and bird song, rich scents, or light glinting on snow, and complex patterns of crossing bare branches drew me to these paintings.   I hope they convey some of the beauty, peace and unpredictable diversity of the abundant life in wet lands."  

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