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I enjoy the outdoors and spend a lot of time there; so the landscapes
where I travel, wander, and hike are an obvious source of inspiration. I started to draw in order to better understand what
I was seeing, to make myself more observant. I also wanted to remind myself of what I saw and to share these places with friends.
It is respect for the places that hosted, humbled, and awed me. Most of
my landscapes are drawn on paper with watercolour crayons – I fell in love with the vividness and blending ability of
watercolour crayons even though they are very time-consuming. I now explore other techniques, including acrylics, linocuts,
and collage. With acrylics, I’ve been focusing on birds in trees, from the shy nuthatch to the noisy crow. With small
linocuts, I’ve illustrated a poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens, and am illustrating a
series of haiku I’ve written.
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