Scenes series – artist’s statement

SCENE: THE PLACE WHERE AN INCIDENT OCCURS OR OCCURRED.

Paintings in the Scenes series are of everyday, prosaic interiors and landscapes, with ambiguous, vertiginous spaces inspired by the carefully staged photographs in glossy magazines – images of impossibly pristine houses, gardens, and pools. The works’ distorted angles and proportions evoke the momentary uneasiness we sometimes unexpectedly feel in familiar spaces – empty rooms and starkly beautiful exterior spaces that look as though someone might have just left – places where you may experience uneasy loneliness or enjoy peaceful solitude. Works in this series were initially influenced by children’s tempera paintings, which are typically colorful, flat, and simple.