Art has tagged along with me throughout my life as though it were an attachment I was born with. As a young child I could be found pencil in hand drawing horses, other animals and landscapes. Lately I have been thinking about this ever present habit of mine and what I feel with brush, pencil, pen or palette knife in hand and a canvas or paper in front of me.
I paint because I love to create pleasurable images. It’s that simple. I love trying to create the emotion a particular scene or animal evokes in me. I feel peaceful in my own quiet world of observation just as I do while sitting quietly on a rock overlooking a meadow or silently gliding through a marsh with a forest of cattails rattling in the breeze. This is what I try to create with my artwork.
I never have to try to find a subject when working in my studio as there are so many that stir me as I sort through my many reference photos. I pause to truly feel what each scene called me to capture it. When I paint plein air my choice of location varies greatly but always it has more meaning to me than just a pretty scene. A place that stirs my curiosity to know it more intimately.
As I wander through the seasons in wild places you will find my interpretations of what I felt moved to try to share them with you in my paintings.
I invite you along on a “Quiet Wandering” with me.