About

 I  began canoe tripping in the 70’s and find this the best way to find inspiration.  Working primarily in oils I paint with loose gestural brushwork to capture the spirit of place.  My paintings strive to encompass in gesture the natural world especially through the changing light of day.  Painting in the forest the senses are involved in taking in the light, sound and smells. Painting at sunrise of an interior lake, watching the sun rise and the mist slowly clear, in solitude I feel alive and thankful.   Sketching at low light as the sun sets under an immense everchanging sky is glorious. Many of my pieces are painted primarily on location.  

Landscape has meaning. Rivers reflect, clouds portend.  Significance is there to be discovered, inherent and ascribed, shaped by what senses perceive, what instinct and experience read as significant, what minds know. 

_ Anne Whiston Spirn, The Language of Landscape