Returning to New York City I found new challenges and interest in the sky – in clouds and their shifting shapes and colors; forms floating in space expanding or dissolving with each moment. My interest was again to capture a relationship of evanescent forms.
For the last ten years, I’ve also turned my focus to include a new landscape – the woods and trees. Here my use of line is more calligraphic reflecting the complexity of trees, branches and limbs weaving through space .Light, its presence and absence, is active in these drawings as well, illuminating and obscuring forms, suggesting depths of space and the mystery of the woods.

The body of photographs of “light” that I’ve developed over many years is a continuation of my interest in light as subject as well as object In a moment, an ordinary surface, texture, or object is brought to life when touched by a beam of light. Sometimes it’s just the shape of light itself that I’m drawn to. As in the pastels what interests me is the ephemeral nature of all phenomena.

Never trying to replicate nature, I select what feels essential while creating a dialogue between my feelings and aesthetic perceptions of the observed world.

VB