An additional counterpoint was afforded me, when in 1999; I was awarded an artist’s residency at Brisons Veor in Cornwall, Great Britain where I concentrated on the rugged coastline and the abandoned tin mines dating from pre-Christian days.

Recently, I have chosen Savannah, Georgia as my permanent home. Here I continue to synthesize the diverse and common elements of places by the sea.

My View of Landscape

The swiftness of time passing, the changes we make to our environment, what is lost and what is gained is my focus. I note as aspects of the landscape ranging from the pure unaltered landscape – trees, rocks, sea, to the invaded landscape where man and tools have incurred, to the human ‘manscape’, a totally built environment.

The pure landscape is where the water and elements wash the coast and leave nature’s footprint and remove man’s. There is a constant movement and tension created where water meets rock and sand.

The invaded landscape is an industrial meeting of man, tools and nature. The scars left by this work are manifest in chiseled marks which remain as a monument to strenuous effort long after workers have gone.

‘Manscape’ happens when man and tools build a new shape. As a former home designer and builder I am still drawn to constructed elements and, in particular, that distinctive individuality that projects a statement of independent personality.