California

Maine

Recent Work

My love of music influences my work. Like a jazz musician exploring the relationship between improvisation and structure, while painting I work to express that lyricism and freedom. Neither purely abstract nor totally realistic, my landscape paintings explore the poetry between the two.  It is this relationship between light and dark, order and disorder, the expected and the unexpected, harmony and dissonance that inspires me as an artist. 

My paintings, like music, are about a felt but not ultimately tangible reality and are often driven by the music I am listening to. The rhythm of the music is expressed in the rhythm of the landscape in ways I can’t necessarily predict – discovering through the process unexpected moments of beauty and surprise that bring life and energy to the work.

 My painting has always been about the interconnectedness I sense in the natural world. For many years as a painter I was drawn to the horizontality of the landscape. My recent return to painting has explored the interconnectedness of earth and sky, the vertical axis as it were, with land forms and trees threading the spaces together and tying them one to the other in the same way a piece of music incorporates different instruments, bass lines, melody, harmony and rhythm, written as notes – stacked one upon the other – to make a chord or a symphonic resonance. Through my painting I hope to inspire a love and understanding of that universal interconnectedness and interdependence that make up the vertical and horizontal world we live in.