Rescued

This evocative landscape emerged on a piece of high quality rag paper used to soak up oil paint spilled on the floor of the studio. The choice to use this paper to soak up the mess was a deliberate action to rescue the possibility that could have been so easily swept away. Just as the drawing was rescued from the detritus in the studio, the landscape that emerges rescues us from the possibility of chaos and offers a place where we rest, seek refuge and simply be still.

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My art making practice is a means to explore the questions of meaning and existence that provoke wonder and thus capture my attention. Within the studio I am seeking to discover ideas, images and experiences that will extend the way I think, perceive and respond to the questions. Within my practice, I am increasingly aware of an experience of mutuality that exists within the practice of making, seeing and being with art. Art is so much more than a resource to be mastered or manipulated in the communication of an idea. In fact, the important thing is not what I can do with art, but what art can do with me. May it be so, for those who are drawn to take the time to see, and be with, my art.