Artist Statement
Depicting landscapes of the soul, carved from appearances of the mind-
my paintings are neither grounded in reality or fiction,
but are fragmented somewhere between the two.
Exploring the passion caused by the great and sublime in nature.
“When those causes operate most powerfully, the outcome is astonishment;
and astonishment is that state of the soul,
in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.
In this case the mind is so entirely filled neither with its object,
that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that
object which employs it. Hence arises the great power of the sublime,
that far from being produced by them, it anticipates our reasoning,
and hurries us on by an irresistible force. “
Edmond Burke, The Sublime and the Beautiful, 1757
Whether considered in opposition to beauty or as dependent upon it,
as an evocation of God, a sense of overwhelming awe, or a power more
akin to terror, the sublime evades a concrete and specific explanation.
my paintings are neither grounded in reality or fiction,
but are fragmented somewhere between the two.
Exploring the passion caused by the great and sublime in nature.
“When those causes operate most powerfully, the outcome is astonishment;
and astonishment is that state of the soul,
in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.
In this case the mind is so entirely filled neither with its object,
that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that
object which employs it. Hence arises the great power of the sublime,
that far from being produced by them, it anticipates our reasoning,
and hurries us on by an irresistible force. “
Edmond Burke, The Sublime and the Beautiful, 1757
Whether considered in opposition to beauty or as dependent upon it,
as an evocation of God, a sense of overwhelming awe, or a power more
akin to terror, the sublime evades a concrete and specific explanation.