As a painter and a photographer, I enjoy creating paintings and photographs that capture light and the essence of my subject. 

Nothing in nature is exactly as it seems. A tree’s bark and branches, leaves and roots are real and exact. 

However, the tree, upon closer look, teems with ants, fungi, moss and lichen, lightning scars, broken limbs, peeled and shedding bark. Everything is multl-layered and multi-dimensional, and I work to capture the essence, revealing both what is known and unknown, and evoking the luminosity and light that everything holds and emits. 

As with nature, so with all things. Nothing is wholly as it seems. Thus, through the media I choose, primarily oil, charcoal, graphite, I create and destroy, excavate and rebuild. 

Thin washes of transparent color call forward inner light. A largely monochromatic palette conveys the breadth and sweep of the subject – the essence I am bringing to the canvas. Energetic marks in graphite and charcoal provide movement, and a loose roadmap for traversing the scene or landscape. 

At times, a stanza from a poem or asemic writing creates a mood or a flow-state that draws the viewer in, creating an inner context and meaning, an inner form to an abstract piece. 

I like to ensure that each painting conveys the story of how it reached its final form. Beginning with marks and lines that are covered and revealed, colors and shapes, conveyed, hidden and recovered, the creation story is part of the finished piece. 

My work is minimal both in subject and color. I want the viewer to arrive at their own experience of the image. As in life, there are guides and signposts, but ultimately the journey is unique to the individual viewer. 

“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about.” – Rumi