These watercolor paintings depict views of the environment within a 20-mile radius of where I have lived my life. The naturally occurring and humanly constructed environmental changes I have witnessed continue to be fascinating and instructive. The views found here call me to respond to their unsettling beauty and evidence of transformation.

I am particularly drawn to places where nature overcomes and reclaims –gradually or dramatically— imposed human constructs. These images are selected for the paintings because they are autobiographical metaphor.

Energetic marks in the composition create rhythmic structure and reveal interlaced spaces to express nature’s wild strength and resilience in response to destructive human intervention. Paper provides a transitory, variable and flexible support to present the connected elements. Color evokes the emotive qualities of natural experience.

These views no longer exist as they once were and these artworks have become memorials, stirring ideas of change and transformation.