ARTIST STATEMENT

My recent paintings address two powerful forces that shape the global environment – geology and modern engineering/land development.

These works reflect my background as a landscape architect and employ my knowledge of ecology, design, cartography and of the impact of designers and developers who disregard the forces of the natural world.

This narrative is embodied not only in the subject matter, but also in the style and materiality of my work. I combine symbolism with reality, perspective with flatness and an exaggerated configuration of nature overlaid with an artificial reconfiguration of the landscape.

In 1982 I wrote a book titled Nature’s Design in which I explained how to design successful and fitting landscape environments using the principles and forces of nature. This series of paintings might well be titled “Design Against Nature”.