The Story Behind the Art
When I paint, I’m not trying to recreate a place exactly as it is. I’m looking for the feeling of it. Such as the way low glowing sunlight light settles over a meadow and holds the ache of something both fleeting but also constant. My landscapes are not portraits of a scene so much as translations of memory and the emotion of time spent in nature. They represent how the moment feels when you stand still long.
I paint from my home studio, often in the hour after my son has gone to sleep. Squeezing in time to create before I too sleep. That solitude has become part of my process, a kind of meditation in itself. I think of painting as both an act of devotion and a conversation between myself and the land, but also between observation and imagination or between what was seen and what was felt.
The meadows, foliage, and wild places that appear in my work are shaped by time spent outside. I walk, notice and remember. I am inspired by the native plants that sustain the local ecosystems and by their resilience or their delicate existence.
I suppose every painting is my way of honoring the connection I feel to the natural world They are quiet reminders that we belong to it, and it to us. My hope is that each piece carries a trace of that belonging, and that it invites you, too, to pause, to notice, and to remember the earth beneath your feet.
Wild Seasons Studio grew from this same impulse: to create space for reflection, reverence, and reconnection. Through painting, writing, and carefully designed offerings, I hope to encourage a slower, more intentional way of existing in the world. One that honors the rhythm of the seasons and the subtle and showy beauty that lives in every wild, fleeting moment.