“From my earliest years, I’ve been formed by solitary encounters with the landscape of the West Coast.  My work investigates the limitless ways that light plays off water and forest, drawing out both tranquil and chaotic elements and fusing them with inner states.

My goal is often an attempt to dissolve the illusory boundary between mind and nature.

Though depths of layered oil paint, at times disrupted by jagged strokes of a brush or knife, the images seek a primal sense in which the flow of time brings not only disintegration but harmony.

My goal is not merely to represent these processes, but to embody them in the making and viewing of the work itself.”  Cybele Ironside