On the Other Side
My art is inspired by place, possibility, and what lies beyond the horizon.
There is always something on the other side.
The other side of the ocean.
The other side of a journey.
The other side of a career, a season, a life.
The other side of the horizon.
On the Other Side grew from a fascination with those places, both physical and imagined, and with the possibility of what might lie ahead.
The paintings begin at the horizon: that distant line where what we know meets what we cannot yet see. They exist at the threshold between landscape and abstraction.
The paintings are named not for the landscapes they suggest, because that interpretation is left to the viewer, but for the experiences that carry us through life: dreaming, risking, drifting, and evolving. Each title offers another way of looking toward the horizon and imagining what might be on the other side.
Two people can stand in front of the same horizon and see something entirely different, in the painting and in what they imagine lies ahead.
Perhaps that is part of the beauty, of art, of life, and of whatever lies beyond the horizon.
There is often beauty in where we’ve been.
And in the possibility of what lies ahead.
What’s on your horizon?
