'Working from things seen in and around the woodland on daily walks still provides ideas for paintings. Are they just romantic musings, and does it matter if they are? In the grand sweep of landscape painting, they are small observations that might spark conversations about seeing.
The paintings on paper are, for the most part, made in one session and rarely revisited, unlike the larger works that I can return to again and again—like a conversation with friends—edited, revised, and rethought. There are times when that process goes on for years, trying to hold onto while also developing that original thread.
I know that I am largely talking to myself, but there are occasions when someone interjects with “yes, but…”'
