statement
I became an artist from a passionate love of nature and a desire to capture both its ravishing surfaces and its poetic impact in paint and canvas.
My style has been characterized as a type of magic realism, and it combines intense but nuanced color, profuse detail, and strong compositional geometry to convey what I feel are the essential qualities of landscape: its sensuous beauty, its underlying structure, and its evocative mystery.
I am particularly drawn to the rich complexity of intertwining or overlapping patterns and textures in nature, and to the aesthetically powerful and emotionally expressive effects obtained by juxtaposing strong color complementaries and contrasts of brilliant light with dark shadow.
Although my furrowed fields of crops, mountain-backed meadows, and residential lawns and gardens reveal indirectly the results of human activity, they are unpopulated except by the trees or hayrolls or plants whose endlessly varied forms dominate the terrain they inhabit.
Their iconic presences, the somewhat eerie light that bathes them, and the absence of people in these landscapes create a sensation of poignancy or melancholy that counterbalances the more decorative qualities of their shapes and colors.
My paintings are simultaneously real and surreal, prosaic and ideal, rooted in earthy materialism and spiritually moving.
