Floating Ground

Everyday one experiences the demands of global media and the pressures of succeeding or just surviving in this rapidly changing, high-tech society. In contrast these landscape paintings afford a moment of stillness, breathing space in which to contemplate an alternative reality. They celebrate the intrinsic value of nature and propose a renewed relationship of interdependence with the physical world.

The images hover poetically between the real and the unreal, suggesting a momentary happening in nature that is both remembered experience and imaginative creation. These landscapes emerge throughout the painting process. The relationship of the accidental drips and flows of paint with the more deliberate descriptive marks reinforces the interplay of the real and the unreal, the material and the idea. The paint becomes the vehicle for both revealing and concealing, the paintings suggest a subject, yet remain an object and the images paradoxically speak at once of the universal and the particular. These apparently disparate elements are held in harmonious tension within the paintings. It is this that causes viewers to feel as if they are at once floating amidst fragments of continuous, yet indeterminate landscapes, while simultaneously becoming more aware of their own 'groundedness'.