I am drawn to landscape--both the actual world around us and the painted landscape.  Each one enhances the other.  My painted landscapes have no direct counterparts in nature. Instead, I combine familiar elements of nature--weather systems, long horizons, grids of trees, expanses of water, and the atmospheres of light--using photos, direct observation and imagination.  My works also acknowledge the historical American and European traditions of landscape painting.   

There is a powerful magnetic sense in landscape that compels us to stop and take a good long look.  In a painted landscape, I am fascinated by the need to enter it and explore it visually and emotionally, to feel into it, to get from "here" to "there" and out and back to the distant horizon. The painted skies, filled with light and weather, extend infinitely into space and suggest the mystery of the "faraway,"  "just over the horizon," the meeting of past and future, and the landscapes of reverie and dreams.