My work is to create paintings that in design and conception reflect the beauty and harmony inherent in the design of the world around us.

             The images are straightforward. Whether they include a lake bed or a stone wall, the places and subjects that I choose to paint are more likely, out of the way, or along a road where one might take a breath from the faster route. That same field we pass each day may enjoy, on this particular day,  a notable light in the sky or snow on the ground. Perhaps rain is pending. Something extraordinary is here on this day, here exists a spirit, a vitality.  This spirit moves me so much emotionally that as an artist , I want to capture whatever this is, and make a painting representing it.  My pursuit is how to recreate this emotional vitality with the tools of  painting. What are the elements fundamental to this scene that will move my audience emotionally as it moved me at this inspired moment.

             To this end, good design or composition is essential. The aspects of the scene that imbue it with this emotional vitality must be composed carefully so that my audience will also feel that inspired moment as they stand before my painting.

             By means of color, line and spatial arrangement as well as form and texture; the elements are arranged to support one another and work together towards a single vision, a unified statement.

             The marriage of the unified statement with the vital elements therein, is the ëartí of the painting.