Little Green

Informed by a rich history of painting from the Netherlandish, Baroque, Hudson River School, and Abstract Expressionism to contemporary artmaking processes, and imagery found online, my work also calls on poetry, science, and nature for its inspiration. Using nuanced mark-making, I make paintings, drawings, and mixed-media installations about the shifting climate that is unpredictable, yet captivating and beautiful. Beauty is a key ingredient in my toolbox, and I blend it with my reverence for the natural world to compose works that are both contrary and compelling. Humanity’s role in the rapidly changing environment adds vulnerability and a tinge of despair to the mixture of painterly beauty — turbulent, roiling skies hint at an unsettled world while mounds of tiny moss appear monumental, peculiar, and strangely comforting. Themes of death, rebirth, unknowing, mournfulness, and joy reside here alongside gratitude, compassion, and love for the Earth and each other.