"Like much of my work, "Long Way Home" began on location, working from reference material gathered at a ranch out West. The cowboys in this piece were photographed in northwestern Colorado, where the landscape opens into high desert and the scale of the land feels expansive.
My first trip to Sombrero Ranches began with a drive from Denver through the Rocky Mountains. That journey left a lasting impression. The vastness, the light, and the sense of moving slowly through something larger than yourself stayed with me. That experience became a quiet undercurrent in this painting.
"Long Way Home" also marks my first exploration of the silhouette. Silhouette has long been a traditional language in Western art, a way of reducing the figure to its essential presence against the land. In embracing that approach for the first time, this piece pays homage to the history of Western art while continuing my own evolving visual vocabulary.”





