ABOUT THE SERIES

Leaves in Love is an evolving series of richly textured 6 x 6 inch impasto oil paintings transformed into large scale archival giclée prints.

What begins as paint, gesture, and surface slowly becomes something else entirely. Through photography and scale, hidden details emerge that resemble forests, riverbeds, weather systems, aerial landscapes, or microscopic worlds suspended somewhere between abstraction and memory.

The title carries a deliberate double meaning. It refers both to leaves in nature and the idea, present in many cultures, that the way we leave this life shapes the state we enter next. To leave in love is to depart with awareness, compassion, and grace.

Part of the series traces back to a childhood memory.

One morning, when I was around twelve years old, I came across a small bird lying motionless on a bed of leaves shortly after I had disturbed it in thoughtless play. I still remember the shock of that moment, how suddenly the world felt fragile and connected. It stayed with me and quietly changed the way I paid attention.

Years later, time spent in Balquhidder, Scotland, and Butchart Gardens in Canada deepened that sense of observation and stillness. My experience as a glider pilot also became part of the work. Flying silently over landscapes, searching the terrain for the next current of rising air, taught me to read texture, movement, shadow, and subtle shifts in the land below.

Those ways of seeing gradually found their way into the paintings.

Texture becomes landscape.

Small becomes monumental.

Pigment becomes light.

Every mark originates from physical paint, light, and material. Nothing is AI generated or digitally fabricated. The camera acts as a tool of discovery, revealing details often invisible to the naked eye.

Leaves in Love is ultimately an invitation to slow down, look closely, and rediscover wonder in an increasingly distracted world.