LakeLinoleum, Oil, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 24" x 1.5"
My paintings explore themes of control and stability through familiar imagery of human/animal form, landscapes, and domestic interiors. By overlapping this imagery with pattern to skew perspective, I set a disorientating stage and allude to something just out of the picture or in the distance that might be spooking an animal or catching the attention of a subject. I like to confront the feeling that things are not as they seem and that there is a conversation of energy happening that may be overlooked. The animals (humans included) in my paintings are responding to the forces around them instinctively, linking interior & exterior activity with their body and the environment. I draw inspiration from my work as a biological field technician and endless hours in observation of relationships in the natural world. I communicate my own sensitivity by painting bodies in response to the environment we share.