If I can do that, when a park visitor sees my painting, I hope they’re inspired to put away their camera phone. Perhaps they’ll think, I can create this land- scape in my memory, in my mind, instead of just taking a quick selfie and mov- ing along. I hope that my work gives them the idea that there are more than a few ways to document and express beauty—whether it be in the form of paint, as I do, or in the form of music, or movement, or words. These are all ways that we can give a voice to the land, to enhance what’s compelling about a place. I think the role of artists is to provide visitors with another window of reality where they can peek through at the landscape—so that they find there is more than one way of seeing the world. Everybody has that sense somewhere within them. Artists just help coax it out.


“WHAT YOU GET IS AN IMPRESSION OF TIME— THE GENERATIONS AND EONS THAT IT TOOK FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL MAGIC TO HAPPEN. YOU’RE HUMBLED AS AN ARTIST.”


warming days. 2014. 36”x 12”. acrylic on canvas.


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