This body of work comprises scenes of forest paths, creeks, ponds, bridges, and the rocky American Northwest coast. As a child growing up on the Navesink River, I rowed leaky boats and explored the new worlds found along the shore. Rambling the woods nearby, I loved the “other” worlds I found. These environments invited my imagination and dreams to grow. Those passages, as well as the new places I encounter as I travel, continue to inspire my art making.

Places become portals for emotions and curiosity.  My job is to capture liminal moments and the dreams that inhabit them. The stress inherent in nature, the tension between life and nonlife, reality and otherworldly, mystery and fact, interests me. My attention is drawn to the shapes of masses and the play between complexity and simplicity..

Expressing the energy or mystical state inherent in objects rthrough color reflects my longstanding interest in the physical nature of the world.

My paintings are meditations on place, time, and self.