Alhaurin El Grande Series
After documenting the underwater spaces of the Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean) and the Medieval Islamic influence of Andalucia, I attended the Bajo el Olivo Creative Arts Residency (Alhaurin El Grande, Spain) where this piece--along with seven others--were completed. The series explores a fusion of underwater environments with distilled shapes / patterns of cultural relevance, primarily pulled from my documentation of the Alhambra and the Royal Alcázar of Seville.
Alhaurin El Grande Series
After documenting the underwater spaces of the Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean) and the Medieval Islamic influence of Andalucia, I attended the Bajo el Olivo Creative Arts Residency (Alhaurin El Grande, Spain) where this piece--along with seven others--were completed. The series explores a fusion of underwater environments with distilled shapes / patterns of cultural relevance, primarily pulled from my documentation of the Alhambra and the Royal Alcázar of Seville.
Private Collection
This piece was a part of a series completed at the Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives Artist Residency (BigCi) in Bilpin, New South Wales, Australia. The richness of the immediate surroundings of the Blue Mountains is combined with references to the Great Barrier Reef--both documented extensively while there. I was at the residency at the beginning of the most devastating fire season in Australia's history--the threat of this influenced the work significantly. Making a leap to combine these two vastly different ecosystems, I decided their co-habitation in the same pictorial space spoke to their need for each other--and their shared stress due to climate change.
This image includes Eucalypt trees from outside of my studio, combined with various marine creatures found at the Great Barrier Reef. The tree on the right is a "scribbly gum" tree, which gets its name from insects that burrow and create marks near the surface of the tree.
This series was created in a very remote part of Washington State, where one can only access it by float plane or ferry. (Created in Stehekin, WA.) Spending a few summers there in a glorious studio in the woods, the flora and fauna of this area made a significant impression upon me.
From a series of works created at Hospitalfield, an artist residency program in Abroath, Scotland. This history of this residency site is fascinating: a hospital was built on the site in 1260 to support the new Benedictine Abbey in Arbroath; in 1664, after the reformation, the Reverend James Fraser bought the estate and in 1843 the artist Patrick Allan met and married Elizabeth Fraser. In 1902, following the terms of their bequest, Hospitalfield became an art school, later developing into a post graduate residential college.