"My paintings document the advanced stage of the conflict between our Cartesian consciousness and the natural world - a world at once outside and a part of ourselves. My subject is the landscape, and my theme is our alienation from a direct, unmediated experience of nature.  At first my intention was to represent the world using a radically simplified grammar of basic shapes on a flat plane. With all extraneous details eliminated, the size, placement, colour of objects and fields quickly became the subject matter itself, as did the various proportional relationships between elements in the paintings.

I use colour to indicate which elements of landscape each abstracted shape represents. Greens most often refer to vegetation, blue to either sky or water, brown to the earth. I often use yellow and orange to represent heat. Different reflective qualities of paint can be used to signify wet and dry states. I sometimes combine colours to indicate a time, night, day, sunset. I like to work big. My subject matter - the totalizing human project of subduing nature and rendering it as an abstraction - demands a large scale execution.” (Kerr, 2004)