RECENT LANDSCAPES

I approach landscape painting as a physical and psychological event rather than a depiction of place. While my work often begins from observation, the paintings ultimately develop through direct engagement with the surface—using finger-applied oil paint, pressure, scraping, and repeated disruption to build dense, tactile compositions.

Across this body of work, land, weather, and structure are treated as active forces. Roads become currents, trees fracture into movement, and sky carries emotional weight rather than acting as background. Forms stretch, collide, erode, and rebuild as the painting negotiates between control and dissolution.

Although these works span multiple locations and years, they are unified by an insistence on intensity—both materially and emotionally. The most recent paintings deepen this language through scale and surface, allowing landscape to function as a stand-in for inner states: instability, pressure, collapse, and resilience.

In 2021, I presented a solo exhibition of landscape paintings at the Dubuque Art Museum.