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I am interested in how traveling writers imagine the landscape they are in and when reading their description, how we imagine them yet again.
This led to a small series of paintings of Landscapes of the Heart. The title has to do with how we keep our childhood landscape in the schema of our pictorial imagination. This phenonomen was pointed out to me when people asked about the recurring volcanoes in my paintings I realized they were echoing my childhood memories of trips around New Zealand and her Volcanic cones.
This seeping into
my work of schematic imagery caused me to apply for a grant to come back to
New Zealand and paint The Hawaiki Series based on the translations from
the Maori of the Creation Myths, by Governor George Grey. These verses are so
powerfully beautiful they needed very little narrative to express the mythic
content and almost lead into abstraction.