Abstract Landscape Paintings

Why Landscape?

In the beginning, I start with chaos and void— a foundation of marks of color and line to work against. I create by pushing out a separation of land and sky and light. Just enough to see form begin to take shape. I feel like I am in a primordial creation space as I paint. The interaction of light and color and mark making fuels me and fills me with awe.

It matters to me that I paint a real space attached to a moment I was there, where I snapped the source photo myself. These places are personal to me. I can never paint from someone else’s photo.

On the other hand, my painting stretch beyond reality— fields descending into drips and scraped lines or exaggerated shades of neon yellow. They are a collection of abstract brush strokes, inspired by the energy of land and sky, the bare minimum needed to remind the viewer of place.

Finally— I paint landscapes because they feel timeless and universal. These spaces might remind you of your own favorite walking trail. Sometimes they remind me of the fields that surrounded me during my childhood in the Appalachian foothills of rural Pennsylvania, and the sense of escape, freedom and connection I felt then only in nature.

I hope that you too may find connection, energy, escape, and wonder in these paintings.