Hudson Valley - Schoharie
These paintings are recordings and distillations of experiences with places found within regions of Schoharie County, NY. They are in part reflections of perennial feeling and emotion for this subtly intimate, strangely beautiful territory, graphically rich with natural and human history. Being surrounded by terrains of unusual and remarkable forms, the influence of glaciers is evident.
The identity given this landscape is a vital presence defined as much by a glacial cobble or a Stone Age implement picked from the field, as it is by farmers of all kinds who manage to keep their ground open, transforming the valley into gardens, continuously surprising settlers with their less permanent shapes and patterns upon the earth. The grace which is found here, by many who came before and by those who care for this place presently, is fertile - the Soul of the landscape, sustaining curiosity and creative effort.
