ART IS A JOURNEY

Just as colors transition with the seasons, between hot summers and cool, grey, misty winters, my paintings reflect the “journeys” of my life.

Developing as an artist is a life-long journey.

The journey of mastering color, pigments, composition, materials and techniques. Times of growth are followed by seasons of frustration. Like having climbed half way up a mountain, when I look up I see how far I have to go…when I look down I realise how far I’ve come.

Each individual painting is a journey. 

Each painting begins with an idea of the destination and how it will be reached; but through diversions, delays and discoveries along the way it often “arrives” somewhere completely different. No matter how carefully I plan a painting, it’s impossible to know where the journey will take me.

Art can take me on “real” journeys.

There is no greater joy than to travel and paint in places I have never experienced before. To set off in the morning with my sketchbook and paints and experience the magic of places where, around every corner, lies something new and unexpected.

And, like all the other journeys, it’s the unplanned that make for the best adventures!