I’m working on two different but related bodies of work. The work that I am doing in the studio is derived primarily from images that I have taken when walking along the Corte Madera Creek. Most of the images are a continuation of the reflections that I started in the spring of 2008. Most of the work is around 36″ x 48.” The paintings come from the images but are not exact representations. All the work is in oil on canvas. All the work is an intersection of representation and abstraction; a continuation of my investigation as an Abstract Landscape painter.
The second body of work that I’m focused on is what I am calling “home work,” because it is being done at home. There are some nights when I am too tired to haul myself off to the studio, or there are some days when it’s been raining so hard that like my cat, I have no desire to venture out. That’s when I work on the “home work.” These paintings are all done on clayboard. They are all the same size, about 4″ x 6″ are done in gouache, which is a chaulky, opaque, water-soluable paint, much like watercolor. Again, I have taken an image that I have photographed of the Corte Madera Creek, and have gridded the photograph, but instead of using the grid to work the entire image, I am using sections of the grid to work from. So far I have six paintings completed. My goal is to make as many of these small gouache paintings as I can, continuing to work with them to see what happens. Last night while working on one of these paintings, I found that my unconscious was starting to kick in, meaning that random images started arising in my mind, surfacing and making their presence known to my conscious mind, asking to be allowed a place in these paintings. I have a feeling that the sheer repetition of the paintings and the repetition of marks, and then the resulting painted image, is giving my unconscious a wider berth than it has been allowed in some time. There are undercurrents in these waters, bubbling to the top.

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