My paintings evolve through the process of change. I paint from life, reducing the three-dimensional world to the two- dimensional surface. Generally, I arrange and rearrange forms, either animate or inanimate, in a shallow space. During the process of arrangeing, I modify objects in size and shape in order to produce a balanced painting, and not make a replication of perceptual reality.

I apply the pigment with the brushes, painting knives and rags. Brush strokes as well as layers of paint are visible on the surface of the canvas. I alternate warm and cool colors as well as light and dark values causing the painting to light up from inside. There is usually one color that dominates the finished painting. The surface energy, texture and color combine to give an emotional quality to my paintings.

Always seeking a different approach to the genre of landscape, both figurative and literal. I employ aerial views and desert close ups to set a new reference frame, allowing new forms to emerge from old traditional subjects. In an effort to stop 'reading' work as landscape, I removed the defining colors and worked solely with the shapes of nature; red, the color of the first chakra symbolizes the grounding element of the earth.