All the world is taken in by the eye, to reach the soul where it becomes more, representative where it becomes deeper than the realm of appearances: a realm ideal and sublime, the deep stillness that is, whose whole proclamation is the silence and the lack of material instance in which, patiently and radiantly, the universe exists.
~ Upstream by Mary Oliver
The Gift : The Sea The Forest
The sea, the forest, is what called me, to know its presence as my presence. Living between the shores of the Salish Sea, and the West Coast forests I have experienced tremendous solace and gratitude. It is from this experience, as well as from a direct and felt observation of shifting light and forms that these paintings are borne.