What Remains in Motion
Still There
- 28 x 22 in
Over the past year, I’ve been working on a series called “Holding Space.” The paintings begin with landscape. Begin is the important word. They don’t stay there. Landscape gives way to mindscape. Memory interferes. Images surface, shift and direct my hand. This painting began with the Santa Monica Mountains seen from the 101. Seen briefly. At speed. So, not the mountains exactly, but what remained of them. I love drawing. A line can interrupt a color, argue with it, change the whole direction of the painting. I add. Remove. Cover. Leave evidence. The finished work doesn’t describe a place. It holds the experience of one. Fragmented, revised and still moving.
May, 2026
Acrylic painting
Held In Passage
- 28 x 22 in
Held in Passage moves through a shifting interior terrain where memory, gesture, and structure briefly come into alignment before dissolving again. Layers of deep color and translucent marks create a sense of movement through space — part landscape, part emotional residue. Sweeping arcs and fragments of line suggest pathways, thresholds, or traces of something once held and now in transition. As with much of this body of work, the painting begins with place and remembered experience, but moves away from representation toward something more internal: a space suspended between containment and release, presence and disappearance. Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas.
May, 2026
Acrylic painting
What Remains in Motion
- 28 x 22 in
This painting is part of “Holding Space,” a series I’ve been working on over the past year. The paintings begin with landscape, then move beyond it. Landscapes becoming mindscapes. This piece began with a view of the Santa Monica Mountains from the 101, traveling west. The mountains passed. The image stayed, though not intact. Dark greens, blue-black and ochre took the place of distance. Lines looped through the color, interrupted it, then wandered off. I added. Covered. Returned. Some marks survived. Others left traces. The painting offers no recognizable place or fixed view. Only movement. Fragments. A way through.
May, 2026
Acrylic painting