Bio

"I have been engaged as a landscape painter since my first artist residency in Scandinavia in 1995, when I spent three months in Iceland. I was initially drawn to the formidable landscapes that echoed the landforms I paint along Colorado’s Front Range—forceful, rugged, and starkly beautiful masses. Since that initial visit, I have become fascinated with the complexity of light, wind, and weather across these geographies, as well as the shifting relationships at the edge of land and sea. Over the past sixteen years I have returned to Iceland, Finland, and Sweden, and these trips form the foundation of my work.

My printmaking centers on etching and Chine Collé, and my teaching interests in lithography and technical drawing inform my image-making. Recent mixed-media paintings and large etchings in the Lumisokea (Snowblind) and Cystrawen (Syntax) series draw on my experience of anomic aphasia following a traumatic brain injury in 2021. I liken the disorientation of losing words to the blindness of a snowfield or the sensation of falling, where navigation depends on fragments and peripheral vision. These works explore the limits and persistence of navigating the world when language falters, allowing meaning to surface through fragments, peripheral vision, and the body’s instinct to orient itself."