My paintings play and work with the spaces created by the horizon, or its absence: by the sky; the weather; the earth and its expanse, its curvature, its fecundity; the water, its movement, its colors; by light manifested in atmosphere; by the landscape's presence, its fullness and its emptiness. Where I include the figure it should be seen as of the space. I have recently been working on a series referring to wetlands, mudflats and grasses.    I work in thin layers of oil on unstretched canvas, acrylics on paper, water color, pastels and graphite. The image arises from the process of painting in which removal of paint is as important as addition.    My work refers to the regional landscape and more universally to the way in which landscape can affect our emotional states and can uplift us into a wider sense of being in the world. My use of the horizon as a structural element speaks to the role it plays in our sense of space.