The image of the falling horse has been with me for many years, but I never painted it. The images lived in my sketchbooks as something I did for myself alone. In the early part of 2024, despite multiple exhibitions and positive critical receptions to my more familiar work, I found myself restless and questioning why I paint. For the first time in over two decades, I found myself not knowing what to do next. With my children moving away to college, the general state of the world, and my richly developed internal life, the falling horse asserted its time was indeed now. My process and "style" haven't changed. I still paint these in the same way I paint my more well known gestural abstract works; the only difference is the introduction of a recognizable figure. The blues-inspired titles came for myriad personal reasons, but I felt they worked with the figures and lent an interesting read to the works.
Cold was the Ground
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I believe we are storytellers by nature. It takes stories to make us human; it takes stories to keep us human. We have always looked to the stars and created heroes and myths, stood before the ocean and interpreted its mysteries to make gods and monsters. I tell stories with gesture and form, surface and texture, in an attempt to convey that same sense of awe and wonder. I want people to find their own meaningfulness in my paintings rather than be concerned about literal meaning. In this way, we are sharing stories; discovering what makes us truly human.
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