It is only a matter of time in which innovation for the sake of innovation alone will fall by the wayside. The true values of art will survive, as art strives for eternity. My landscapes are painted in the open air. I prefer to walk out into the desert to work in quiet undisturbed isolation. The work progresses through the direct process of observing nature.
Scales seem to be removed from the eyes as greater depths of colour and spatial relationship appear.
Indeed the act of painting seems to be a form of meditation causing a heightening of the awareness. While in the field, what takes place on the canvas seems as a reduced reflection of all that is experienced. Yet when viewed back in the confines of the studio, it is clear that the canvas has brought back the vitality of the greater experience. Sometimes I feel that it is the landscape which has painted itself, not the artist. I have been but a medium through which that which has been painted has recorded its presence.