Artist's Statement

I paint landscape the way I see it -- emphasis on "see". When I paint, I remember far more than if I merely looked. Painting becomes a way of seeing; seeing becomes a way of life.

In the field, I sometimes enjoy big brushes. But broad brushstrokes do not an impressionist make -- not in the true sense of the word. I'm not looking for an impression, I'm feeling for the essence. What I see and present may be more vivid, or softer, or more linear, than the transitory appearance of the land on any one day.

I've been intrigued by the low-light landscape, places where the temporal becomes spiritual. In moonlight, the land loses contour and color, but gains radiance and resonance: a sense of magic. In a cave, formations and life-forms protected for aeons by profound darkness are made visible, and therefore vulnerable, by our human act of lighting the cave.