My gouache-on-found-paper paintings are based on photographic explorations of the ephemeral landscape: places where water meets land, where fallen trees are swallowed by their reflection, where the horizon dissolves into sky. These sculptural, stitchedtogether surfaces, with their layers of painting and drawing, are like the palimpsests I seek in the landscape: the strata of meaning and experience in a specific place.

My inspiration comes from old pictures and stories, daydreams and fascinations. I play with the scale of things, combine what we actually see with what the mind sees, mix up night with day and now with then. I'm always looking for odd juxtapositions. Could we live shoulder to shoulder with Lilliputian societies? Could ships ply the roads and skies? Maybe birds should drive. It's idiosyncratic, but it's what I've always been about.