“Whenever people talk about the weather to me, I always feel certain they mean something else.” — Oscar Wilde

My paintings are abstract, yet deeply influenced by natural phenomena—radically shifting atmospheres, tides, geological surfaces above and below the waterline, wind circulation, plate tectonics, and satellite imagery. Having lived near polluted rivers and canals in Maine, and more recently in Brooklyn and along the Hudson River in Beacon and Newburgh, New York, I have witnessed an ongoing alchemical transformation in both water and air.

These observations—of pollution, of altered light and color, of increasingly severe weather patterns —inform the acidic tonalities and spatial shifts in my current work. The imagery becomes a metaphor for the human condition in a precarious and rapidly shifting world.