Landscapes are one of the most popular painting genres. In fact, when it comes to sales, abstracts and landscapes are the top two selling styles. Why is that? What is it about a landscape that makes people want to hang it in their homes?

For me, it’s the idea that there is a place out in the world I’ve either visited and want to return to every time I look at a painting, or a place I long to go. Sometimes, it’s a place that doesn't even exist outside of my own imagination. Those are the best places because I can paint them. I like to think people buy my landscapes because they want to visit a place that exists nowhere else but in my mind.

There is also something powerful about the idea that parts of our world remain untouched, vistas where no humans exist. There are wild, serene places full of flowers and color; there are flat lands, mountains, hills, and waterways. It isn’t lonely; it’s peaceful. This is what my mind seeks and why I love landscapes. It always goes back to "the spaces between," that sense of energy out there that I don’t fully understand, but am always seeking.