Mine is an observation-based art. I work to record what I see accurately, spontaneously and without addition or subtraction. In this way the wind, the rain and the sun are in the driver’s seat, not me. Daily practice has shown me how each day evolves second to second, hour to hour and day to day. Every moment is unique. Nothing is ever repeated. How could it be? Nature knows nothing of repetition.
Whatever the underlying motives of past ‘landscape art’ (political, spiritual, commercial, decorative etc.) it has tended to present us with work that offers either a frozen kind of experience (a ‘snapshot in time’) or a stuttered, disjointed kind of experience (time-elapsed art). But we all know that environmental experience is neither but rather a seamless continuum of evolution and change. Everything we know of from quarks to the universe, everything in our visual frame, everything available to consciousness is clearly in motion in real time. As an artist committed to finding an authentic environmental art I endeavour to imbue the work with these understandings.
To some my project may seems unfashionable. I could not care less. How we image environment says a great deal about how we relate to it and that has to be the most relevant question of our time.