'Reminders of things magical..'
'My painting began as a way to survive; I made my own reality, turning both the fleeting and the tragic into something that had meaning, the idea that both magic and a sense of 'pictoral justice' could perhaps save us...'
'The landscape - or rather the depiction of it - has always been about capturing an atmosphere, and placing yourself in that world, dwarfed by the scale;
'unspeakably alone', as Rainer M. Rilke said.
There's also a physical element, in trying to capture it. Like you're building something - imagined, but also as real as anything you can touch.
Sometimes people will ask where is it, exactly - like it has to be specific.
So, I'll answer; it's not important where in particular it is. And, I leave it at that.
But I know exactly where it is. Because that's how and why it works - capturing the feeling of a place we know, intimately, and not any other, recognizable yet never obsessed by its details.
I suppose it's also about ourselves, and our own, inner worlds - shared, but never fully understood.'
'La Cordillera'
Acrylic on canvas, 162 cm x 93 cm, 2012.
From a series of works produced after several trips to Mendoza and Parque Aconcagua.
‘It will be universally admitted that instincts are as important as corporeal structure for the welfare of each species under its present conditions of life.’
Charles Darwin