"My Paintings are simply about making patterns, arranging form, and positioning elements to express emotion. I choose the landscape genre because historically it offers a workable pretext to convey human experience allegorically. Treescapes in particular lend themselves to such a reading. The vertical tree and standing figure analogy provides a subtle opportunity to communicate how we feel.

I do not intend my landscapes to reference actual geographical locations; but instead, I want them to evoke a different reality - our emotional responses. To do this I sometimes blur the boundaries between traditional representational landscape and symbolic abstraction."

Danna Ruth Harvey