For many years I have painted people, places and things where the materials and subjects conceal, alter, and hide information. Using layers of paint, I play with shifting our perspectives of what we see. In recent years, I find myself pausing in various places at night and compelled to capture in paint what I am feeling at these moments.

Several of these paintings are part of the “Night Shift” series which recently exhibited at Justus Fine Art Gallery in Hot Springs, AR. The paintings fuse childhood memories with recent sketches and photos on Harbour Island. They aim to capture nocturnal musings - and how darkness serves as a device to block out information. In simple terms, darkness selects what we can and can not see. It reminds us there is something beyond our vision and forces us to refocus our eyes and respond to limited information. I find myself considering the constant and quick cycles of the earth spinning from light to dark for all of our brief lives, long only relative to the short days.

There are messages in this pattern - awake and asleep, seen and unseen, evidence and faith, known and unknown, clarity and mystery. Often, in certain places at night, I get the sense of being indoors when in fact I am outside, as if the night is a reminder that I am inside the universe, and a tiny part of something grand.