Oil on Canvas

Having recently moved to the Eastern Shore of Maryland from New Mexico, I've found that many of the themes I carried with me still apply. Farms, fields, barns and fence lines are universal in rural America yet their surroundings vary wildly. I'm struck by the sheer saturation of water in my new environment and while I need not necessarily represent it literally in subject matter, I now strive to interpret this all-pervasive element in my landscapes. Thin, transparent washes have replaced hard, opaque line to illustrate a world diffuse in its humidity, lush with vegetation bleeding into every open corner. In The Tangle Of Midnight, a somewhat more romantic title than I'm accustomed, a lone, possibly abandoned farm sits in solitude as the surrounding fields creep closer under hazy moonlight.