A Sense of Place

My mark making is similar no matter what I touch, whether it is clay, linoleum, pastel or sharpie, I see the world a certain way …below is a quote from Van Gogh on his process and shorthand which resonates with me and how I do my work.

"I can see that the scenery has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have taken it down in shorthand.

My shorthand may contain words that cannot be deciphered, mistakes or gaps, and yet there is something left of what the wood or the beach or the figure has told me, and it isn't in tame or conventional language derived from a studied manner or from some system, but from nature itself."