Nature is difficult; a complex web of disparate elements.  Each painting is a meditation of a unique and fleeting instance in time and place – a vanishing miracle that demands reverence.  All aspects of the seeing contribute to the witnessing. Editing Nature is not an option. Nothing must be abbreviated or omitted, for Nature is the Creator, and I, merely the recorder.

I want the viewer to come away from my paintings with a renewed sense of the extraordinary in the usually scanned, quickly dismissed mundane aspects of the natural world.  I want them to be immersed not in the technique or natural patterns of form and light, but in the air of its life.

If the course of man-made destruction of Nature remains unabated, images of her will exist only in nostalgic archives.  I paint because I don’t want to just remember.  I want, and for those that come after me, to know at least these fragments of the extraordinary.