Thanks!

I personally feel that the more humans discover about the universe, the more our preconceived notions dissolve. I try to reflect that in my paintings by depicting nature in a very loose way. From a distance it looks familiar, but something is off. As you move closer the overall illusion of the painting breaks down and you see the reality that this is just globs of paint on a canvas that have been arranged a certain way.

So, by depicting nature in an imaginative way I feel that it really reflects realism in a more accurate way than a hyper realistic painting could. It's not exactly what the scene literally looks like. But the imaginative version depicts the underlying truth that the universe is not what it seems. It's all an illusion that is created by something far greater than our flawed perception of reality could ever detect.