The Language Of Presence

At the heart of the work in The Language of Presence is the practice of quiet, close attention – unhurried and receptive, looking and noticing without rushing to interpret. This kind of presence asks for a willingness to sit with not-knowing, to resist the urge to name and move on.

Included are three bodies of work: oil paintings that start from close observation of the natural world, then depart from the immediate scene to allow an invented reality to emerge; cave wall paintings that draw from the texture and feeling of prehistoric cave art, reaching for connection across time to the earliest human mark-making; and text-paintings built from a journaling practice noting ordinary moments of sensory experience, letting the words themselves become visual marks.