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The materials of paint and land; the imaginative processes. Painting is the recreation of space; but which space? Sure, we see the immediate physical, elemental structures of the land. But there's more. Our senses also tell of visceral movements, scents in the air, birdsong, insect life. They hint at cultural traditions and histories. Land contains within itself all the stories of its passages through time; animal, vegetable and mineral.   As a painter I'm interested in and excited by the more abstract qualities of...more