There is a particular quality of attention that happens in the minutes before you fully arrive somewhere—when you are present, but not yet claimed. My work moves between landscape, figure, and abstraction, but the subject is never really the mountain, the body of water, or the figure. The subject is the feeling of being temporarily unmoored from the noise of our own lives and dropped into something larger.

I want the viewer to recognize a place without being able to name it exactly—to feel the warmth of afternoon light on their shoulders without knowing which afternoon it was. Landscape—its vastness, emotional generosity, and capacity to make one feel both small and held is a persistent presence in my work. I paint not to document, but to make an argument for it. To stand inside a landscape and let it work on you is one of the more useful things a human can do. I hope my paintings extend that invitation.