I start all of my paintings outdoors but finish most of them in the studio. These two stages offer different things to my painting process. In the context of the outdoors the paintings seem insubstantial, my focus is on reacting to the world around me and translating/editing what I see. Later, in the studio, the paintings present themselves as worlds of their own. No longer just a response but something to be responded to as well. At that point I focus on the painting itself; the brush stroke, the composition, the passage of one color into another.
My best works strike a balance between honoring the character of the places that I paint and honoring the beauty of paint itself.
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