For the last couple of weeks, this contemporary landscape painter has been caught up in either prepping for open studios or opening up the studio to the public. I have managed to finish one painting and am in the midst of working on another.

Working on new work while being surrounded by older completed work both fortifies the process but also shows me various places that I have meandered. So it is fitting that much of my work has been and continues to be either about or includes some form of water; rivers, creeks, waterfalls, pools, streams, oceans.
It is easy to fall into working in a way that was successful in the past and just continue to working the same way because it works. Most of the time I don’t want to float to the edge of the waterfall, and will find ways to get around it, but there are times when I either choose to, or just have to give into the process of the painting and see where it all takes me. Either I survive or get smashed in the process.

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