"Nature provides a varying catalyst for metaphor. Seasonal changes, weather, and the woods become a way to express thoughts and feelings that I am not willing or able to express verbally.

Incidents and places that I observe in nature are full of complexity. Time away from the source tests the strength of the natural elements I observed and according to natural selection my painting reflects the elements that remain strongest n my memory. I find my paintings are constructed around an aspect of the landscape I originally perceived as subtle or inconsequential. But in the same way that an off hand comment from a stranger can have more impact than a whole conversation with someone familiar, a fallen branch can have more impact than all the trees in an orchard. A bent form, a dip in the terrain becomes the focus instead of a lost part of the greater scape. I feel intimate with the places I depict. I do not feel like an observer who is separate from the landscape, but I feel like a part of the things I see. The paintings are the place where my thoughts and nature combine to become a single entitiy."

Bio

'Sophisticated Rawness: Artists Complement, Delight at Three Graces by Ann Bryant.
Art Review in Spotlight, Portsmouth Herald.
Thursday, August 18, 2005.

'A Critic Takes A Look...' by David Smith.
Art Review featured in Foster's Daily Democrat.
August 2005.