About the Archive

2015, Karst, oil on canvas, 54 x 42

My paintings explore the tension and disturbance produced by the juxtaposition of natural and man made landscapes.  I paint the conflict between plant life and the often beautiful wasteland of industrial production. Technology ruins are of particular interest to me – old roller coasters, decaying factories, abandoned mining and military equipment.

While I am fascinated by looming environmental ruin, my work is not didactic in any straightforward way. I paint densely layered information drawn from life and travels, photographs, and more and more from the internet.  I like wild and saturated color.  However abstract, I view my work as narrative although the precise stories differ with the viewer. I use visual ambiguity and disjunction to give these narratives an on-edge feeling.

I work in oil on canvas and gouache (opaque watercolor) on paper.  All of my work is done in my studio with reference to plant specimens brought inside, my own photographs, images from the internet, books and magazines.

Archive – Oil on Canvas

Archive – Works on Paper