Rural Landscapes

In the spring of 2005 I moved to rural New Mexico and it was only then that my focus on landscape painting truly began. I was immediately awestruck by my surroundings. Having grown up by the ocean I’d never experienced anything like it. I loved the movement in the environment: the contours of the land, the winding roads, the wind in the clouds and trees. Rural New Mexico has a pastoral solitude unique unto itself. The passage of time didn't seem to have the same hold out there. Vintage trucks pass newer models on dusty roads. A tractor sits in the shade of a tree next to an old horse-drawn plow. I lived there for eighteen years and nowhere else have I witnessed the same humbling vastness of space coupled with the tiny reminders of human existence.