Nature and Universe
My early figure paintings are the results of a self-imposed challenge to find the right balance between portrait and landscape—or between people and the environment. While I am in Maine, I often photograph people in action and paint my favorite places en plein air. The early paintings evolved towards larger works with more expansive themes. Event Horizon sets the stage for an existential threat to the order of the Universe as we know it. In the painting, a family is grouped around a telescope, witnessing a black hole forming in the Milky Way where it shouldn’t be. Worlds Within Worlds is about nature’s tendency to create variations of similar forms at different scales, and about how our point of reference determines how we experience these natural forms.
