Gallery 2

'I like to think of myself as a landscape painter of the non-scenic variety. I don't go off in search of bigger and better splendors to record. When the scene is splendiferous, you spend all your time merely recording it, rather than truly investigating it. I consider that a form of "artistic tourism", getting a small taste of an alien locale and then elaborating the theme from faint and passing impressions. When the scene is "ordinary" there's much more time spent re-interpreting its subtleties.

'I prefer to stay with the familiar territory at hand, the 400 acre horse and cow farm where I live. There's enough to occupy me there for a lifetime. The trees, rocks and sky I see every day is something I know and can investigate in detail.

'I deliberately rein in my instinct for self-expression and stylisation, one holds it back a bit. What "selfness" does come through is all the more genuine, for soul is more deeply hidden than personality, and more telling.

'Too little style is boring, and too much style imposes itself on the subject matter, inhibiting an honest appraisal of it.'

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