Rural Landscapes

The land around us is endlessly fascinating, enormously beautiful, and we are part of it. That is, when we remember to be.

Most of us live in cities now, sometimes with barely a scrap of greenery. But, the countryside still calls to us.

It drives me outside with my paints as it whispers to my imagination and embeds itself in my mind.

In eons past, beyond conscious memory, our ancestors needed the land. It was their Mother, the source of life and survival.

They settled fertile places, tall-grass plains and primeval forests. Places where food could be gotten, usually close to water.

These paintings of land and sky and water, made outdoors and in the studio, celebrate our Earth. They fill a place in my heart that had too often been empty but now so often overflows. I hope they fill a place in your heart too.