My work is an investigation into the experience of landscape. How geometric forms can both disrupt and bring into focus different, surprising and unexpected emotions. It is an investigation into divergent and complimentary forms, their compositional as well as abstract relationships within the natural landscape.

My initial studies of geometric forms developed into architectural volumes, continuing into a study of Frank Lloyd Wright’s modernist designs and specifically his Usonian houses. By disassembling his structures and positioning those in forest landscapes allowed me a fuller understanding of how nature and geometric volumes work together as an image.

My process begins by taking a photograph of the landscape which I then use as the foundation of a new drawing. This new drawing maintains a visible relation to the landscape, but is changed by my interventions. Although I enjoy the wet processing of film I also make use of digital manipulation techniques to investigate and develop the characteristics of the image.

By integrating my forest photography and Frank Lloyd Wright inspired surfaces and planes within a flexible computer aided 3D environment I begin to blur the lines between the natural and geometric. This provides the stimulus and reference to feed back into my traditional charcoal drawing to develop the emotional impact I see as potential between the two.

Inspired by: David Paul Bayles, Peter Doig, Robert Longo, Sally Mann, Gerhard Richter, Tim Simmons, James Turrell, Frank Lloyd Wright, Andrew Wyeth