I am a painter and muralist who creates humorous, strange, abstract landscapes that I call imagined spaces and misremembered places. These colorful works are often blocky yet slightly atmospheric with shapes that feel like they are in motion, and they’ve only stopped moving because they are being observed.

The Who is the landscape. The landscape is a subject moving over a very large timespan where time slowly changes space but I compress time so that the movement is more apparent to the human eye.

The What or the concept is about time and change. Change over different timescales, change over a day, change over a season, change over an epoch. Change that occurs when my memory and imagination mix and mingle. Things get very strange the further back you go or the more gaps there are in memory.

The Where of my work is a humanless landscape. This landscape is I the purgatory between my memory and imagination, where it’s hard to disentangle the two. Change and time feed into this and create more and more abstract landscapes as I get further back in time, and memory fades and imagination has to fill in the gaps.

When – this is often ambiguous because I am interested in world-building, creating something that doesn’t exist, I see it as a temporary form of escapism, like short story fiction but it’s about a place that is so strange yet feels real. And playing with contradictory terms. Now and then. Past and present. The land and the air. Between knowing and not knowing. It’s about discovering a line between these opposing concepts and losing myself in that space.

The Why Why landscapes? I don’t come from a traditional landscape painting background; I don’t use photographs or work from references. I use the landscape as a form of escapism. Losing myself in the changes that occur over time or that occur with loss of memory or place. I want to create worlds that feel like stories I read as a child, places where everything is possible, where things that seemed static suddenly move and become alive (like rocks or trees moving around like clouds). I see it as a temporary form of escapism, like short story fiction but it’s about a place that is so strange yet feels real.

The How I show time and change by working from memory and imagination. Letting these mix and mingle so it’s hard to tell what parts of the landscape came from where. I work on multiple pieces at a time and without references to any specific place.

In the end, my paintings of imagined spaces and misremembered places become places for viewers to wander through and explore, so that the world is a bit more beautiful and surprising.