artist statement

Drawing with the full length of my body, I create a free-flowing composition that continues to exist outside the barrier of the visual surface. In hundreds of layers, I build paintings on wood and canvas with brayers, sticks and brushes. The works I exhibit are simply the intimate sections of a greater arrangement.

I am a painter of deep maps. A deep map goes beyond simple landscape/history-based topography. It interweaves autobiography, archeology, stories, memories, folklore, traces, reportage, weather, interviews, natural science, and intuition. Specifically, I am interested in tracing the birth of North American civilization to the heart of modern exploitation. Utilizing multiple perspectives, I build compositions that explore the land and its influence over our subconscious.

In its best form, a finished painting arrives at a subtle, multi-layered and 'deep' map of a small area of the continent. - North