There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. In a world society dominated by science and technology, it is vital for humanity’s balance and health to recollect and record our enduring relationship to nature. California Horizons helps the viewer recollect a relationship with and inspiration from experiences in natural settings. These paintings are my personal way of bringing a weighted balance to what is quickly becoming a barren, technological landscape.

I have focused these images on my home state, California, traveling to many areas of the state to take photographs and draw inspiration. Each painting contains hundreds of layers of paint, many taking over a year to complete. I do not work from photographs, nor do I paint specific skies from memory, but rather work to recollect a feeling from nature. A surrealistic subconscious impulse directs the process of each painting, where colors and passages of paint are chosen in an automatic and involuntary fashion. The final result is a painting which integrates my spiritual and emotional impulses with my experiences in nature.