As a perceptual painter, I focus on painting the landscape, still life and portraits from direct observation. I work primarily in small scale as I am attracted to the intimacy that it affords and from a practical perspective it also makes it easy to transport to and from my painting locations.

My landscapes and still lives focus on space, light and capturing a sense of a time and/or place. It is

always the light that attracts me, draws me in and keeps me searching for things that are not immediately obvious on first glance. My preference is painting the natural landscape and the deeper

space it affords. I place as much importance on painting the particular light I observe within the space, and I am attempting, through these works, to translate my thoughts of a particular place into paint. I am attempting to re-present the scenery I observe before me. Ultimately, my goal is to impart a quiet luminous quality within the landscapes discovered in places that have meaning for me.

During the winter months I paint in my studio, typically still lives observed near a window in a more compressed space. This allows me to bring my attention inward and reflect on relationships and spaces between objects as if on a stage. I usually paint landscapes from a bit of a distance because I like to see the larger sweep of things and get that sense of back and forth with air and atmosphere in between. It’s different from painting still lives where I am usually right up front and close to them.

When models are available, I work on portraits where I am concerned with portraying the “essence” of a person’s spirit, rather than a direct representation.

In all of my work, the challenge is to see beyond the conspicuous to discover a unique quality, uncover

the mystery and capture a feeling the scene, person or object(s) evoke in me.