AERIALS

In my Aerial Landscape series, I create oil paintings on wood panels in a non-tradition way, employing oil sticks both as drawing tools and as ink for printmaking techniques. All works are 16”W x 20”H x 2”D .

Working from sixty-five photos taken on a flight from Santa Fe, NM to Denver, CO I paint abstracted versions, that reveal the places and things I saw in ways not visible from the ground.

My biggest influences as an artist are prehistoric cave paintings and Aboriginal Art. They are the essence of human expression, visceral marks that convey an experience or understanding. Whenever flying the friendly skies, so to speak, lift-off and touch-down always put me in an absolute state of awe. While I am thousands of feet in the air, the views are equally enthralling and I cannot help but see symbols where rivers, mountains, crop circles and roads appear. It is these symbols of the history of the earth itself that I record in this body of work.