I dream of landscapes, remote, disused, abandoned, where structures merge with nature. Houses, objects become texture, drawing. Colour is memory. Evidence of the past erodes; new stories emerge.

Painting helps me restructure what I remember, how I see. I am often prompted by something I have found (a ruin, a photograph, cracked tarmac, diaphanous plastic, a house for sale, polaroids). Working outdoors is essential. I carry materials, walk to remote countryside, improvise using paint, collage, video. Back in the studio I combine, excavate, lay down layers, take them up again. Image emerges from abstraction, abstraction from image. Painting is a kind of reciprocity, layered in form and story.

Originally from Ohio I have lived in Scotland more than half my life. ‘Identity’, ‘place’, ‘home’ shift for me. I am drawn to nostalgia, but mistrustful of it.

In our current world we can’t help but consider what is “out there”. Fields, trees, clouds and night. Heightened senses felt in colours, opacity/transparency, tilted picture planes. I am looking for coordinates to navigate by, to find and free closely guarded secrets.

I am a member of:
Scottish Artist’s Union Scottish Society of Artists Visual Arts Scotland Scottish Contemporary Art Network, Studio 1.1, London